1) An endangered bird 2) An ignorant or foolish person 3) Blue-footed bird 4) Boob 5) Dope 6) Dumbbell 7) Dummy 8) Dunce 9) Dunce or gannet 10) Fool 11) Kin of a pelican 12) Kind of hatch 13) Kind of prize 14) Kind of prize or trap 15) Kind of trap or prize 16) Last place prize 17) No rocket scientist
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1) Boob 2) Fool 3) Idiot 4) Pinhead 5) Seabird
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- an ignorant or foolish person
- small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both
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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. 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...
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A type of bird that has little fear and therefore is particularly easy to catch.
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A type of bird that has little fear and therefore is particularly easy to catch.
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• (n.) 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. • (n.) A species of penguin of the antarctic seas...
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any of six or seven species of large tropical seabirds constituting the family Sulidae (order Pelecaniformes). They vary in length from about 65 to ... [2 related articles]
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Origin: Sp. Bobe dunce, idiot; cf. L. Balbus stammering, E. Barbarous. ... 1. A dunce; a stupid fellow. ... 2. <zoology> A swimming bird (Sula fibre 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 othe...
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Boo'by (bō'bȳ)
noun ;
plural Boobies (-bĭz). [ Spanish
bobo dunce, idiot; confer Latin
balbus stammering, English
barbarous .]
1. A dunce; a stupid fellow.
2. (Zoology) (a) A swimming bird (
Sula fiber or ...
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The Booby (Sula fusca) is a swimming bird similar to the Gannet and so named
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Booby is slang for a foolish or ignorant person.
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A type of bird that has little fear and therefore is particularly easy to catch, hence booby prize.
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n] - small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both
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noun small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both
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Tropical seabird of the genus
Sula, in the same family, Sulidae, as the northern gannet, order Pelicaniformes. There are six species, including the circumtropical brown booby
S. leucogaster. Plumage is white and black or brown, with no feathers on the throat and ...
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a stupid person; dunce. · a gannet of the genus Sula, having a bright bill, bright feet, or both: some are endangered.
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