α. 1600s bobie, 1600s boobee, 1600s– boobie, 1600s– booby, 1700s boobey, 1800s– bubby (English regional (north-east midlands)).
β. (in representations of Welsh English) 1600s pobbie, 1600s pobie, 1600s poobie, 1600s pooby.
单词 | booby |
释义 | boobyn.1α. 1600s bobie, 1600s boobee, 1600s– boobie, 1600s– booby, 1700s boobey, 1800s– bubby (English regional (north-east midlands)). β. (in representations of Welsh English) 1600s pobbie, 1600s pobie, 1600s poobie, 1600s pooby. 1. a. A childish, foolish, inept, or blundering person; (also) (chiefly English regional) a person (esp. a child) who cries readily, a crybaby. Now colloquial.In early use apparently particularly associated with Welsh English; quot. 1602 and quot. 1603 at Compounds 1 both occur in representations of the speech of Welsh characters, and cf. also the early β. forms. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > lout, oaf, booby > [noun] lubber1362 looby1377 howfing?a1513 slouch?1518 bowberta1522 knuckylbonyarda1529 lob1533 lout1548 patch1549 hoballa1556 lilburnea1556 lobcocka1556 chub1558 hick1565 lourd1579 peasant1581 clown1583 lubbard1586 lumberer1593 lump1597 blooterc1600 boobyc1600 lob-coat1604 hoy1607 bacon-brainsa1635 alcatote1638 oaf1638 kelf1665 brute1670 dowf1722 gawky1724 chuckle1731 chuckle-head1731 John Trott1753 stega1823 lummoxa1825 gawk1837 country jakea1854 guffin1862 galoot1866 stot1877 lobster1896 mutt1900 palooka1920 schlub1950 the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > coward(s) > one who cries childishly boobyc1600 cry-baby1882 c1600 Club Law (1907) i. iv. 5 Why, what a company of bobies were yee? 1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. I3 I will lap this little Silde [i.e. child], this Booby in his blankets agen. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Custome of Countrey i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aa3/1 Cry you great booby. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 113. ⁋3 I bowed like a great surprised Booby. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1776 II. 35 Johnson: We work with our heads, and make the boobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 260 I was so awkward a booby that I dared scarcely speak to her. 1891 R. P. Chope Dial. Hartland, Devonshire 29 Booby, a big child given to crying. 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. viii. 189 ‘Poor simple monk,’ I thought, ‘poor booby.’ 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 186 Gloucestershire children comment: you babby, big baby,..booby, [etc.]. 2001 A. Solomon Noonday Demon (2002) iii. 137 I decided that anyone who could not remember those two sentences was a big booby, and with some effort I got the incompetent mystic back out of my house. b. spec. A schoolchild singled out in a class, school, etc., as being the most lacking in ability or intelligence; a dunce. Now rare. ΚΠ 1844 Age & Argus 7 Dec. 6/3 ‘What is light?’ asked a schoolmaster of the booby of a class. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. iv. 75 He was the booby of..grammar school. a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) i. 4 I never got a single prize, and once sat boobie at the annual public examination. 1880 in Arkansas Hist. Q. (1953) 14 256 When I went into the upper school room I was astonished to see large boys standing on stools against the wall with cards around their heads marked ‘fool’, ‘booby’ or ‘dunce’. 1903 G. C. Eggleston First of Hoosiers viii. 162 He had written the word ‘miserable’ across each page of my copy-book... He had called me ‘dunce’, ‘booby’ and other pet names of like sort, and finally he had dismissed me from his school. 1975 M. J. Mirsky Secret Table 56 I felt so foolish and insignificant, a flunk out, class booby. 2. More fully booby bird. Any of various large tropical seabirds comprising (or formerly included in) the genus Sula (family Sulidae), which typically breed in colonies on islands and coastal regions, and have white, black, and brown plumage. Also with distinguishing word. Cf. Sula n.Abbott's booby, blue-footed booby, masked booby, red-footed booby: see the first element.Perhaps with reference to a reputation for stupidity; cf. e.g. quots. 1634, 1904 and see etymology. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > family Sulidae (gannets) > member of (miscellaneous) booby1625 malgas1731 takapu1842 blue-footed booby1888 the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > family Sulidae (gannets) > sula bassana (gannet) ganneta1000 solana1525 solanc1540 booby1625 gentleman1676 Sula1678 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iv. iv. 416 Of Fowles are Pellicans, white, as bigge as Swannes, with a large and long bill; Hearnes, Curlews, Boobies, Oxe-eyes, with diuers strange kindes of water-fowles. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 10 One of the Saylers espying a Bird fitly called a Booby, hee mounted to the top-mast and tooke her. The foolish quality of which Bird is to sit still, not valuing danger. 1687 R. Blome Present State Isles & Territories Amer. 252 Then there is the Booby-bird, the blew-headed Parrot,..the Carlew, the Wood-Pigeon, &c. 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 31 Boobies..so called of Seamen because they do not stir from you, but suffer themselves to be catch'd by the hand. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Albitrosse... This is a thievish creature and principally feeds on the prey which another sea-bird, called the booby, provides for itself. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II lxxxii. 160 At length they caught two boobies, and a noddy. 1875 A. J. Cupples Young Bright-eye iii. 48 It proved to be..a booby-bird..about the size of a large duck, with no trifle of a beak on its head. 1904 C. A. Reed N. Amer. Bird Eggs 57 Blue-faced Booby. Sula cyanops... Like the rest of the Gannets, this one is stupid and will often remain on the nest until removed with the hand, merely hissing at the intruder. 1940 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 22 Dec. a9/1 He..brought back rare specimens of blue-eyed Galapagos doves, iguanas, and the seldom-seen blue-footed booby bird. 1984 P. O'Brian Far Side of World iii. 91 On to the well-watered, tree-covered Cocos Island, inhabited by boobies and man-of-war birds. 2018 @Adagiosvoyge 6 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) We've had a hitch hiking bird on our bow rail all day. I think it's a brown booby. 3. U.S. A horse-drawn sleigh of a type particularly used in New England, having an enclosed body like that of a coach or brougham; = booby hut n. at Compounds 2. Sometimes also more fully: Boston booby. Now chiefly historical.In quot. 1833: apparently referring spec. to the enclosed body of such a vehicle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > for transport of people sled1590 sledge1617 traineau1653 sleigh1703 pulka1746 booby-hutch1766 Tom Pung1799 cutter1803 pung1804 kibitka1806 booby-hack1820 pulk1831 booby1841 sleigh-cutter1846 clipper-sled1883 1833 Boston Morning Post 2 Feb. A handsome booby hut, in good order, the booby English built, and the runners excellent.] 1841 Boston Morning Post 15 Dec. Bay horses, Barouch, Booby, Chaise and Harnesses. 1870 Boston Post 19 Nov. Two elegant new Boobies, nearly finished. 1916 Boston Sunday Globe 2 Jan. 23/1 Closing out sale of boobies and elegant double sleighs. 1980 Defiance (Ohio) Crescent News 26 June 6/1 Probably built in Boston about 140 years ago was the museum's new Booby Hut, or Boston Booby. 2003 Carriage Jrnl. Jan. 15/1 (caption) Col. Downing would identify this as a coach booby. 4. Chiefly North American. Short for booby prize n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > losing or defeat > booby-prize mell1683 booby prize1884 booby1886 1886 Darlington (Wisconsin) Republican 22 Jan. Mrs. E. G. Barlow won the married ladies' booby and C. A. Blanchard the married gentleman's booby. 1904 Numurkah (Victoria) Leader 12 Aug. Gents booby was won by P. McGrane. There was a great contest between Mrs Edgar and Miss..Gunn for the ladies' booby prize. 1921 North Carolina Educ. Jan. 17/2 The booby was won by Miss Kelly, who had done more traveling over the county than any one else and should have known exactly where to place Jackson. 1989 Stonewall (Manitoba) Argus 22 Feb. 26/3 Men's first—Bill Richter; men's booby—Signi Peterson. 2000 Seguin (Texas) Gaz. Enterprise 12 Nov. 3 b/4 Dottie Peebles took second and booby was won by Ida Mae Fisher. 5. slang (originally Australian). A cell, a lock-up; a prison. Cf. boob n.1 2, booby hatch n. 2, booby-hutch n. 4. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > cell houseOE cabinc1522 hole1535 lodging1612 hold1717 cell1728 lock-up room1775 glory-hole1825 box1834 drum1846 sweat-box1870 booby-hutch1889 Peter1890 booby1899 boob1908 flowery dell1925 slot1947 1899 Cundagai (New S. Wales) Independent 26 July He said, ‘Put me in the —— Booby’; I then arrested him and charged him with using indecent language, and brought him to the lockup. 1914 Sydney Sportsman 25 Feb. 3/3 She gets three months in the Booby, And the kid are sent to school. 1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad 329 Booby or Booby Hutch, the cell. PhrasesΚΠ 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Cuff To cuff Jonas, said of one..who beats his sides to keep himself warm in frosty weather; called also beating the booby. 1862 Golden Fleece Gaz. 2 July 8/1 ‘Beating the booby’ is that method of warming oneself with the arms, so peculiar to London cabmen. 1883 Country Gentleman 20 Jan. 62/2 It was painfully cold to-day..; even ‘beating the booby’ failed to induce or keep up circulation. 1898 Morning Bull. (Rockhampton, Queensland) 11 Oct. 6/4 Parker, no doubt, thought he was beating his breast with the most repentant sinner on the whole penitent form, but to me he seemed to be merely ‘beating the booby’. Compounds C1. General attributive and appositive (in sense 1), as booby class, booby fool, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] sloweOE stuntc960 dullOE hardOE stuntlyc1000 sotc1050 dillc1175 dulta1225 simplea1325 heavy1340 astonedc1374 sheepishc1380 dull-witteda1387 lourd1390 steerishc1411 ass-likea1425 brainless?a1439 deafc1440 sluggishc1450 short-witted1477 obtuse1509 peakish1519 wearish1519 deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520 doileda1522 gross1526 headlessa1530 stulty1532 ass-headed1533 pot-headed1533 stupid?1541 sheep's head1542 doltish1543 dumpish1545 assish1548 blockish1548 slow-witted1548 blockheaded1549 surd1551 dull-headed1552 hammer-headed1552 skit-brained?1553 buzzardly1561 witless1562 log-headeda1566 assy1566 sottish1566 dastardly1567 stupidious1567 beetle-headed1570 calvish1570 bluntish1578 cod's-headed1578 grout-headed1578 bedaft1579 dull-pated1580 blate1581 buzzard-like1581 long-eared1582 dullard1583 woodena1586 duncical1588 leaden-headed1589 buzzard1592 dorbellical1592 dunstical1592 heavy-headeda1593 shallow-brained1592 blunt-witted1594 mossy1597 Bœotian1598 clay-brained1598 fat1598 fat-witted1598 knotty-pated1598 stupidous1598 wit-lost1599 barren1600 duncifiedc1600 lourdish1600 stockish1600 thick1600 booby1603 leaden-pated1603 partless1603 thin-headed1603 leaden-skulledc1604 blockhead1606 frost-brained1606 ram-headed1608 beef-witted1609 insulse1609 leaden-spirited1609 asininec1610 clumse1611 blockheadly1612 wattle-headed1613 flata1616 logger-headeda1616 puppy-headeda1616 shallow-patedc1616 thick-brained1619 half-headed1621 buzzard-blinda1625 beef-brained1628 toom-headed1629 thick-witted1634 woollen-witted1635 squirrel-headed1637 clod-pated1639 lean-souled1639 muddy-headed1642 leaden-witteda1645 as sad as any mallet1645 under-headed1646 fat-headed1647 half-witted1647 insipid1651 insulsate1652 soft-headed1653 thick-skulleda1657 muddish1658 non-intelligent1659 whey-brained1660 sap-headed1665 timber-headed1666 leather-headeda1668 out of (one's) tree1669 boobily1673 thoughtless1673 lourdly1674 logger1675 unintelligenta1676 Bœotic1678 chicken-brained1678 under-witted1683 loggerhead1684 dunderheaded1692 unintelligible1694 buffle-headed1697 crassicc1700 numbskulled1707 crassous1708 doddy-polled1708 haggis-headed1715 niddy-noddy1722 muzzy1723 pudding-headed1726 sumphish1728 pitcher-souleda1739 duncey1743 hebete1743 chuckheaded1756 dumb1756 duncely1757 imbecile1766 mutton-headed1768 chuckle-headed1770 jobbernowl1770 dowfarta1774 boobyish1778 wittol1780 staumrel1787 opaquec1789 stoopid1791 mud-headed1793 borné1795 muzzy-headed1798 nog-headed1800 thick-headed1801 gypit1804 duncish1805 lightweight1809 numbskull1814 tup-headed1816 chuckle-pate1820 unintellectuala1821 dense1822 ninnyish1822 dunch1825 fozy1825 potato-headed1826 beef-headed1828 donkeyish1831 blockheadish1833 pinheaded1837 squirrel-minded1837 pumpkin-headed1838 tomfoolish1838 dundering1840 chicken-headed1842 like a bump on a log1842 ninny-minded1849 numbheadeda1852 nincompoopish1852 suet-brained1852 dolly1853 mullet-headed1853 sodden1853 fiddle-headed1854 numb1854 bovine1855 logy1859 crass1861 unsmart1861 off his chump1864 wooden-headed1865 stupe1866 lean-minded1867 duffing1869 cretinous1871 doddering1871 thick-head1873 doddling1874 stupido1879 boneheaded1883 woolly-headed1883 leaden-natured1889 suet-headed1890 sam-sodden1891 dopey1896 turnip-headed1898 bonehead1903 wool-witted1905 peanut-headed1906 peanut-brained1907 dilly1909 torpid-minded1909 retardate1912 nitwitted1917 meat-headed1918 mug1922 cloth-headed1925 loopy1925 nitwit1928 lame-brained1929 dead from the neck up1930 simpy1932 nail-headed1936 square-headed1936 dingbats1937 pinhead1939 dim-witted1940 pea-brained1942 clueless1943 lobotomized1943 retarded1949 pointy-headed1950 clottish1952 like a stunned mullet1953 silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954 out to lunch1955 pin-brained1958 dozy1959 eejity1964 out of one's tiny mind1965 doofus1967 twitty1967 twittish1969 twatty1975 twattish1976 blur1977 dof1979 goofus1981 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 numpty1992 cockish1996 1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. F3v Then mag a pobbie foole of Sir Owen indeed: Gods plude shall? 1696 T. Southerne Oroonoko i. ii. 11 If she had ever a handsome Daughter to wheedle her out of: Or if I cou'd make any thing of her Booby Son. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 341 Who dully think all Foreigners Man-makers, Send out their Booby Sons to France, to Dress. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxxi. 202 Never was there Booby-'Squire that more wanted it [sc. improvement]. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 105 There is not a boy on the booby form but should have been scourged for such a solecism in grammar. 1831 R. Montgomery Oxford ii. 125 The booby offspring of a booby sire, With leaden visage passionlessly cold. 1924 Age (Melbourne) 11 Aug. 8/5 His union officials, therefore, should abandon the booby position of crying out before anyone is hurt. 1980 Jrnl. Courier (Jacksonville, Illinois) 13 Apr. 52/6 Georgie was mighty, mighty smart but he'd end up in the booby class in any masculine beauty parade. C2. booby-hack n. [after booby-hutch n.] U.S. (now chiefly historical) a horse-drawn sleigh of a type particularly used in New England; a booby-hut (booby hut n.); spec. such a sleigh available for hire (cf. hack n.2 3). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > for transport of people sled1590 sledge1617 traineau1653 sleigh1703 pulka1746 booby-hutch1766 Tom Pung1799 cutter1803 pung1804 kibitka1806 booby-hack1820 pulk1831 booby1841 sleigh-cutter1846 clipper-sled1883 1820 C. C. Emerson Let. 15 Jan. in R. A. Bosco & J. Myerson Emerson Brothers (2006) iv. 221 I had a fine ride in a booby hack with Miss Stearns in the country. 1888 Boston Daily Globe 2 Feb. (Evening ed.) 8/6 They collided with Crowley's booby hack, knocking the horse down and demolishing the front of the vehicle. 1952 K. H. Dunshee As you pass By 133 These rigs, called ‘booby hacks’, were common sights along old Park Row. 1995 Carriage Jrnl. Winter 106/3 The Booby-Hack was a closed sleigh used for hire. booby hut n. [after booby-hutch n.] U.S. (now chiefly historical) a horse-drawn sleigh of a type particularly used in New England, having an enclosed body like that of a coach or brougham; cf. booby-hack n. ΚΠ 1760 N. Ames Diary 20 Dec. (1998) I. 56 Took a Ride in Booby-Hut. 1846 G. Warburton Hochelaga II. vi. 146 A covered conveyance, enclosed partly with glass;..it is called a ‘Booby-hut’. 1918 F. H. Hall Memories Grave & Gay vii. 68 In the closed sleighs of the period, booby-hacks or booby-huts as they were called, the motion was so violent as to make people sick. 2010 Iowa Historian May Carriages..came in an amazing assortment of sizes, shapes and finishes—from the ‘buckboard phaeton’ to the ‘sidebar buggy’ to the ‘booby hut’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). boobyn.2 colloquial (originally U.S.). Usually in plural: a woman's breasts. Also occasionally in singular: a breast.Also occasionally denoting unusually prominent breasts on a man or boy.The entry for bubbies in H. Wentworth Amer. Dial. Dict. (1944) records boobies as being in use in central New York State in 1916. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun] titOE breastOE mammaOE pysea1400 mamellec1450 dug1530 duckya1533 bag1579 pommela1586 mam1611 Milky Way1622 bubby?1660 udder1702 globea1727 fore-buttock1727 tetty1746 breastwork?1760 diddy1788 snows1803 sweets1817 titty1865 pappy1869 Charleys1874 bub1881 breastiec1900 ninny1909 pair1919 boobs1932 boobya1934 fun bag1938 maraca1940 knockers1941 can1946 mammaries1947 bazooms1955 jug1957 melon1957 bosoms1959 Bristols1961 chichi1961 nork1962 puppies1963 rack1968 knob1970 dingleberry1980 jubblies1991 a1934 N. Kimball Nell Kimball: Life as Amer. Madam (1970) iv. 42 I was fifteen and filled out, nice little boobies hard as apples, and a narrow waist. 1934 H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 315 She was lying on the divan with her boobies in her hands. 1968 Guardian 2 Sept. 4/6 The characters were constantly referring to her large bosom (even descending to calling them ‘big boobies’). 1995 L. W. Nathanson KidShapes iv. 126 An overly chubby preschooler looks different from the other boys... He may be self-conscious about taking off his shirt—mean children may refer to his ‘boobies’. 2000 Bull. Menninger Clinic 64 292 His teacher allowed him to sit on her lap and touch her ‘booby.’ 2006 Esquire Mar. 87/1 You look around at women's dresses that are so low cut, and you can see acres of boobies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). boobyv. Now rare. intransitive. To act in a foolish, inept, or blundering way; to behave in the manner of a booby (booby n.1 1). Also with about.Attested earliest in out-boobying; cf. out- prefix 4a(b)(i). ΚΠ 1747 T. Coke Let. 20 June in C. W. James Chief Justice Coke (1929) xxxi. 250 Baldassar is..a greater Bumkin than any in Suffolk, as appears by his..out-boobying any of them in applying in the best booby manner for their votes and interest. 1807 Salmagundi 4 Feb. 55 Those brainless pert bloods..Who lounge and who lout, and who booby about. 1916 Phoenix July 64 The spectacle of the author of ‘The School for Scandal’ booby-ing through the piece..quite put me out of patience with the late Clyde Fitch. 1948 Dublin Mag. July-Sept. 19 Even the loss of his cash can't stop him from boobying for boobying is what I call his fashionable notions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1c1600n.2a1934v.1747 |
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