Definition of BOOBY

booby

Meanings

Plural: boobies

Noun

  • an ignorant or foolish person
  • small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both
  • A stupid person.
  • Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid.
  • In the game of croquet, a ball that has not passed through the first wicket.
  • A breast.

Verb

  • To behave stupidly; to act like a booby.
  • To install a booby trap on or at (something); to attack (someone) with a booby trap.

Adj

  • Stupid; unintelligent.
  • Displaying breasts prominently.
  • Having large breasts.

Origin / Etymology

17th century. From Spanish bobo, from Latin balbus (“stammering”).

Synonyms

addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, alcatote, arsehole, ass-brained, asshat, asshole, bayard, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, berk, birdbrain, birdbrained, blither, blockheaded, bobchin, Boeotian, bonehead, boneheaded, boob, boobily, boobish, boofheaded, bozo, brainless, brickhead, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, buffoon, bullet-headed, busty, cerebrally challenged, Charlie, chesty, childish, chowderhead, chowderheaded, chucklehead, chuckleheaded, chump, clart, clown, crackbrained, cretinous, dense, dented, der-brain, dill pickle, dim, dim bulb, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, dingleberry, dipshit, dipstick, dirtbrain, div, divvo, divvy, dolt, doltish, donk, doodle, doofus, dope, dopey, dork, dote, dotterel, dozy, drowsy, dull, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dullard, dumb, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as an ox, dumb as dirt, dumb fuck, dumbass, dumbbell, dumber than a box of rocks, dumber than a rock, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dunderheaded, dupe, empty-headed, fathead, fatheaded, feeble-minded, fenderhead, fiddle, flea-brained, foolish, fuckwit, fuckwitted, fuzznut, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, geck, gig, gink, goober, gooseberry, gowk, gubbins, gump, ha'p'orth, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, Homer Simpson, idiotic, ignoramus, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, insipid, intellectually challenged, jamoke, jerk, jerkoff, jolterhead, jolthead, juggins, jughead, knucklehead, knuckleheaded, lamebrain, lamebrained, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, mameluke (US (Italian-American), maroon, meathead, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, mong, monosynaptic, moron, moronic, mug, muggins, mushhead, muttonheaded, nimrod, nincompoop, nit, nitwit, nitwitted, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, numbskulled, numps, numpty, numskull, nupson, oaf, oafish, obtuse, peabrained, pillock, pinhead, plonker, prat, pratty, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, retard, retarded, rockheaded, schmo, schmuck, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, shit for brains, shit-for-brains, shithead, shitwit, simple, slang), slow, slow-witted, smooth-brained, snapperhead, softhead, sot, stolid, stupid, sucker, sulid, thick, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as a whale omelette, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as pig shit, thick as two short planks, thick-skulled, thickhead, thickheaded, thickwitted, tonto, tool, tosser, tosspot, twat, twerp, twit, unapprehensive, unclever, unintelligent, unsmart, vacant, vacuous, wally, wantwit, wazzock, witless, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, yampy

Scrabble Score: 12

booby is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
booby is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
booby is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

booby is a valid Words With Friends word