BOOBY
\bˈuːbi], \bˈuːbi], \b_ˈuː_b_i]\
Definitions of BOOBY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A dunce; a stupid fellow.
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A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby.
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A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.
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Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.
By Oddity Software
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A dunce; a stupid fellow.
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A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby.
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A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.
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Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A silly or stupid fellow: a water-bird, of the pelican tribe, remarkable for its apparent stupidity.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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