Synonyms for booby
ˈbu biboo·by

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1. booby

   Synonyms:
   idiot, dunce, numskull

   Antonyms:
   wiseacre, solon, oracle

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1. dumbbell, dummy, dope, boob, booby, pinheadnoun

   an ignorant or foolish person

   Synonyms:
   the skinny, smoke, gage, blank, boob, green goddess, weed, dope, breast, sess, knocker, skunk, silent person, dumbbell, cola, pinhead, locoweed, bosom, low-down, blank shell, titty, grass, pot, sens, dummy, tit, poop

2. boobynoun

   small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both

   Synonyms:
   boob, dumbbell, pinhead, dummy, dope

Matched Categories

1. • Gannet
   • Simpleton

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1. boobynoun

   Synonyms:
   simpleton, fool, DUNCE

2. boobynoun

   Synonyms:
   (Ornith.) gannet, noddy, solan goose (sula bassana)

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1. boobynoun

   Synonyms:
   dolt, dunce, simpleton, numskull, coot, ninny, dullard, witling

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1. List of paraphrases for "booby":

   spotter, explosive, rubber, tit, weapons

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1. Marco Rubio:

   My sense of it is that these people were really planning a broader attack but I think the evidence is going to continue to show that these were clearly people that had been radicalized, you don't build all these pipe bombs and set up booby traps unless you're planning something.

2. Sharfan Darwish:

   There is news about many Daesh (IS) members escaping and evacuating some areas of Manbij and booby-trapping them, our forces are now on the outskirts of the city. The campaign continues.

3. Michael Thurmond:

   They confiscated booby traps, boards with nails that were hidden by leaves and underbrush. You could kill a small child or a pet with those.

4. Ismet Sheik Hassan:

   Fighters are still clearing homes and streets of booby-traps and mines. There are some clashes from ISIS pockets on the outskirts of the town, but Ain Isa and the surrounding villages are free of the ISIS terrorists.

5. Henry David Thoreau:

   As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.