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booby (n.)
1.large heavily built seabird with a long stout bill noted for its plunging dives for fish
2.small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both
3.an ignorant or foolish person
4.(colloquial)either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
5.(informal)a person of subnormal intelligence
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Merriam Webster
BoobyBoo"by (b�"b�), n.; pl. Boobies (-bĭz). [Sp. bobo dunce, idiot; cf. L. balbus stammering, E. barbarous.]
1. A dunce; a stupid fellow.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) A swimming bird (Sula fiber or Sula 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 -- unafraid of men, it allows itself to be caught by a simple and undisguised approach. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, Sula piscator, the red-footed booby; and Sula nebouxii, the blue-footed booby. (b) A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.
Booby hatch (a) (Naut.), a kind of wooden hood over a hatch, readily removable. (b), an insane asylum. [Colloq.] -- Booby hut, a carriage body put upon sleigh runners. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett. -- Booby hutch, a clumsy covered carriage or seat, used in the eastern part of England. Forby. -- Booby prize, an award for the poorest performance in a competition; hence, metaphorically, the recognition of a strikingly inferior or incompetent performance. -- Booby trap (a), a schoolboy's practical joke, as a shower bath when a door is opened. (b), any concealed device causing surprise or injury when a usually harmless object is touched; -- in military operations, typically containing an explosive charge.
BoobyBoo"by (b�"b�), a. Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.
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booby (n.)
ass, berk, bonehead, boob, bosom, breast, breasts, burk, bust, chump, clown, cretin, dimwit, dope, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, fathead, female breast, gannet, idiot, imbecile, lout, lummox, moron, ninny, nit, nitwit, nut, peabrain, pinhead, solan goose, twit
booby (n.) (colloquial)
bosom, breast, titty, boob (colloquial), hooter (colloquial), knocker (colloquial), tit (coarse)
booby (n.) (informal)
arsehole, ass, blockhead, bonehead, changeling, clot, dimwit, donkey, dope, dumbo, fathead, fat-head, fool, fuckwit, halfwit, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, nincompoop, nitwit, nut, oaf, retard, wanker, bugger (colloquial, spéc. anglais britannique), cretin (informal), damn fool (colloquial), jackass (U.S.A., !!!!!!!!!!!!!!12006!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, colloquial), loggerhead (old), moron (informal), wally (colloquial)
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booby (n.)
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⇨ booby hatch • booby prize • booby trap • booby-trap
⇨ Abbott's Booby • Blue-footed Booby • Booby (disambiguation) • Booby Dupes • Booby Island • Booby prize • Booby trap • Booby trap (disambiguation) • Booby traps • Booby's Bay • Brown Booby • Masked Booby • Nazca Booby • Peruvian Booby • Red-footed Booby • Tasman Booby • The Booby and the Beast • Ugandan booby trap
booby (n.)
booby; gannet[ClasseHyper.]
booby (n.) [colloquial]
booby (n.) [informal]
naïve[ClasseParExt.]
personne stupide (fr)[Classe]
booby (n.)
booby, gannet, solan goose[Hyper.]
genus Sula, Sula[membre]
booby (n.)
Wikipedia
Booby | |
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Blue-footed Booby displaying by raising a foot | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Pelecaniformes |
Family: | Sulidae |
Genus: | Sula Brisson, 1760 |
Species | |
For fossil species, see text. |
A booby is a seabird in the genus Sula, part of the Sulidae family. Boobies are closely related to the gannets (Morus), which were formerly included in Sula.
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Boobies hunt fish by diving from a height into the sea and pursuing their prey underwater. Facial air sacs under their skin cushion the impact with the water. Boobies are colonial breeders on islands and coasts. They normally lay one or more chalky-blue eggs on the ground or sometimes in a tree nest.
See also Booby Mating Dances
Their name was possibly based on the Spanish slang term bubie, meaning "dunce", as these tame birds had a habit of landing on board sailing ships, where they were easily captured and eaten. Owing to this, boobies are often mentioned as having been caught and eaten by shipwrecked sailors, notably William Bligh of the Bounty and his adherents, during their famous voyage after being set adrift by Fletcher Christian and his followers.
Six of the seven extant Sulidae species called boobies are in the genus Sula, while the three gannet species are usually placed in the genus Morus.[1] Abbott's Booby was formerly included in Sula but is now placed in a monotypic genus Papasula, which represents an ancient lineage perhaps closer to Morus.
Some authorities consider that all nine species should be considered congeneric in Sula. However, they are readily told apart, by means of osteology. The distinct lineages of gannets and boobies are known to have existed in such form, since at least the Middle Miocene, c.15 mya (Olson 1985).
The fossil records of boobies are not as well documented as those of the gannets; possibly because the species of boobies were less numerous in the late Miocene to Pliocene, when gannets had their highest diversity or because of the more tropical distribution of boobies, many fossil species have simply not been found yet, as most localities are in continental North America or Europe.
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