Word Meanings - BOOBY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A dunce; a stupid fellow. A swimming bird 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

Additional info about word: BOOBY

1. A dunce; a stupid fellow. A swimming bird 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. Booby hatch , a kind of wooden hood over a hatch, readily removable. -- Booby hutch, a clumsy covered carriage or seat, used in the eastern part of England. Forby. -- Booby trap, a schoolboy's practical joke, as a shower bath when a door is opened.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BOOBY)

• Blockhead
• Dolt
• dunderhead
• jolterhead
• dunce
• ninny
• numskull
• dullard
• simpleton
• booby
• loggerhead
• ignoramus
• Rustic
• Clown
• boor
• clod
• leuc

Related words: (words related to BOOBY)

• DUNDERHEAD
  A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.
• CLOWNAGE
  Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. B. Jonson.
• RUSTICAL
  Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
• RUSTICATE
  To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope.
• CLOWN
  Fries. kl clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log block, and E. 1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney. 2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child
• CLOWNISH
  Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv. Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill- bred; boorish; rustic;
• BOOBYISH
  Stupid; dull.
• RUSTICITY
  The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric
• CLOWNISHNESS
  The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.
• DUNCE
  One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt. I never knew this town without dunces of figure. Swift. Note: The schoolmen were often called, after their great leader Duns Scotus, Dunsmen or
• BOOBY
  1. A dunce; a stupid fellow. A swimming bird 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
• NUMSKULL
  A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.
• LOGGERHEADED
  Dull; stupid. Shak. A rabble of loggerheaded physicians. Urquhart.
• SIMPLETON
  A person of weak intellect; a silly person.
• RUSTICLY
  In a rustic manner; rustically. Chapman.
• CLOWNERY
  Clownishness. L'Estrange.
• BLOCKHEADED
  Stupid; dull.
• RUSTICATED
  resembling rustic work. See Rustic work , under Rustic.
• IGNORAMUS
  We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The phrase now used is, "No bill," "No true bill,"
• RUSTIC
  1. An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown. Hence to your fields, you rustics! hence, away. Pope. 2. A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person.
• BLOCKHEAD
  A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.