Synonyms of the word booby


BOOBYBOOB - DOPE - DUMBBELL - DUMMY - GANNET - PINHEAD - SIMPLE - SIMPLETON

booby

  • n. A stupid person.
  • n. Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae,…
  • n. In the game of croquet, a ball that has not passed through the first wicket.
  • v. (rare, intransitive) To behave stupidly; to act like a booby.
  • v. (transitive) To install a booby trap on or at (something); to attack (someone) with a booby trap.
  • n. (slang) a woman’s breast.

boob

  • n. (informal, pejorative) Idiot, fool.
  • n. (slang) A breast, especially that of a human adult or adolescent female.
  • adj. (informal, pejorative) Idiotic, foolish.
  • v. To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.
  • v. (informal, intransitive) To make a mistake.

dope

  • n. (uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
  • n. (uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
  • n. (uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon…
  • n. (uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly…
  • n. (uncountable, slang) Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other…
  • n. (countable, slang) A stupid person.
  • n. (US, Ohio) dessert topping.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To affect with drugs.
  • v. (transitive) To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
  • v. (transitive, electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
  • v. (slang) To use drugs.
  • v. (slang, transitive, dated) To judge or guess; to predict the result of.
  • adj. (slang) Amazing.

dumbbell

  • n. (weightlifting) A weight consisting of two disks or spheres attached to a short bar; used for exercise…
  • n. (pejorative) A stupid person.

dummy

  • n. A silent person; a person who does not talk.
  • n. An unintelligent person.
  • n. A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
  • n. Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
  • n. A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
  • n. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand) A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a…
  • n. (card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
  • n. (Britain) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; a feint.
  • n. (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
  • n. (programming) An unused parameter or value.
  • v. To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
  • v. To feint.

gannet

  • n. any of three species of large seabird in the genus Morus, of the family Sulidae. They have black and white…
  • n. (Britain) a voracious eater; a glutton.

pinhead

  • n. The head of a pin. (Frequently used in size comparisons.).
  • n. (slang) An ignorant, naïve, foolish, or stupid person.
  • n. (slang) A telemark skier.
  • n. (slang, medicine) A human head that is unusually tapered or small, often due to microcephaly, or a person…
  • n. (slang, pet stores) A newborn cricket used as food for pets.
  • n. (mycoculture) The immature juvenile fruiting body of a mushroom prior to its gills opening.

simple

  • adj. Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
  • adj. Without ornamentation; plain.
  • adj. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
  • adj. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
  • adj. (now rare) Trivial; insignificant.
  • adj. (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
  • adj. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
  • adj. (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
  • n. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
  • n. (obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.
  • n. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
  • n. (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
  • n. (weaving) A drawloom.
  • n. (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
  • n. (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e., medicinal herbs.

simpleton

  • n. (pejorative) A simple person lacking common sense.

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