Booby vs Null - What's the difference?
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A stupid person.
(by extension) Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula'' and ''Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid.
* 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
(rare) To behave stupidly; to act like a booby.
* 1824 (Washington Irving), "Proclamation", Salmagundi volume 1:
To install a booby trap on or at (something); to attack (someone) with a booby trap.
* 1976 "Weekly Almanac", Jet volume 22, page 44:
(slang) a woman’s breast
* 1934 (Henry Miller),
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between booby and null
is that booby is a stupid person or booby can be (slang) a woman’s breast while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb booby
is (rare|intransitive) to behave stupidly; to act like a booby.booby
English
(wikipedia booby) (Sulidae)Etymology 1
17th Century. (etyl) bobo, from (etyl) .Noun
(boobies)- At which time, ?ome Boobyes , weary of flight, made our Ship their pearch, an animall ?o ?imple as ?uffers any to take her without feare, as if a ?tupid ?en?e made her carele??e of danger...
Synonyms
* (stupid person) * (large tropical seabird) sulidDerived terms
* Abbott's booby, Papasula abbotti * blue-footed booby, Sula nebouxii * brown booby, Sula leucogaster * masked booby, Sula dactylatra * Nazca booby, Sula granti * Peruvian booby, Sula variegata * red-footed booby, Sula sula * Tasman booby, * booby trapVerb
(en-verb)- Who lounge and who loot, and who booby about, / No knowledge within, and no manners without;
- Self Boobied . Donald E. Campbell of Merritt Island, Fla., accidentally tripped on one of the shotgun shell booby traps he had installed
Etymology 2
From the earlier form bubby .Noun
(boobies)- At ten o’clock she was lying on the divan with her boobies in her hands.
Derived terms
* boobAnagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.