booby
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1. booby - Noun
2. booby - Adjective
3. booby - Verb
Meaning
A dunce; a stupid fellow.
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.
A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.
Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.
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The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.
Where yet was ever found a mother Who'd give her booby for another?
...and I haven't got to the bloody Japanese yet, with their poisoned stakes and booby traps and nasty habit of using prisoners for bayonet practice and no-surrender valour and fighting ability to match our own...almost.
Insight is the booby prize of life.
Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.