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booby

noun
🔊/ˈbuːbi/
🔊/ˈbuːbi/
(plural boobies)
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  1. (informal) a stupid person笨蛋；傻瓜
    • Don't be such a booby!不要那么傻！🔊🔊
  2. [usually plural] (informal) a word for a woman’s breast, used especially by children（女人的）乳房（多见于儿童用语）
  3. a large tropical bird with brightly coloured feet that lives near the sea鲣鸟（大型热带海鸟）Topics Birdsc2
    4. Word Originsense 1 and sense 3 early 17th cent.: probably from Spanish bobo (in both senses), from Latin balbus ‘stammering’. sense 2 1930s: alteration of dialect bubby, of uncertain origin; perhaps related to German dialect Bübbi ‘teat’.