1. booby - Noun
2. booby - Adjective
3. booby - Verb
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone. Edward Young
Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise. Piet Hein
Where yet was ever found a mother Who'd give her booby for another? John Gay
...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. George MacDonald Fraser
Insight is the booby prize of life. David H. Levy
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. Yusef Komunyakaa