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Booly vs Boofy - What's the difference?

booly | boofy |

As a noun booly

is (obsolete) a company of irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the tartars.

As an adjective boofy is

(australia|colloquial) of hair, puffy, or having extra volume, not necessarily desired; having such hair; see bouffant or boofy can be (australia|colloquial) brawny, overtly masculine and rather dim-witted.

booly

English

Alternative forms

* boley * bolye * bouillie

Noun

(boolies)
  • (obsolete) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars.
  • (obsolete) A place in the mountain pastures enclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.
    • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)

    boofy

    English

    Etymology 1

    From bouffant.

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (Australia, colloquial) Of hair, puffy, or having extra volume, not necessarily desired; having such hair; see bouffant.
    • My hair was so boofy this morning it took 10 minutes of brushing to get it looking decent.
  • * 2004 , Margaret Simons, Latham's World: The New Politics of the Outsiders , page 38,
    • He appeared in person much as he did on television – big, boofy even when well groomed – like a version of Ginger Meggs grown up and gone into politics.
  • * 2005 , John Harms, The Pearl: Steve Renouf's Story , page 81,
    • Steve trotted onto the field: a young footballer with a boofy , 1980s haircut.
  • * 2010 , James Dack, Stephen Dack, Larry Writer, Sunshine and Shadow: A Brothers' Story , unnumbered page,
    • I'm smiling, my tie is askew, and I'm sporting a boofy big hairdo, like all the other kids in my class.

    Etymology 2

    Possibly from or influenced by boofhead.
    (en)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (Australia, colloquial) Brawny, overtly masculine and rather dim-witted.
    • Dave, the big boofy''' builder, finally solved the mouse problem the big '''boofy bloke way: by crushing it unceremoniously under his boot.
  • * 2006 , Judy Hardy-Holden, Love in the Afternoon , page 58,
    • My friend Sharn has a friend in her late 50s who is very keen to maintain sexual relations with her husband, a big boofy bloke, a mechanic by trade.
  • * 2011 , Dave Graney, 1001 Australian Nights: A Memoir , page 116,
    • Suddenly the carriage was full of boofy schoolboys all excitedly chesting and punching each other and stretching their limbs as they tried to sit still.
  • * 2011 , John Sullivan, Firebug , page 72,
    • She likes Doug Wright, believes behind the hard facade lives a warm, boofy bloke not unlike her Dave.
    Related terms
    * boofhead