boob
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbuːb/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːb
Etymology 1
Clipped form of booby (“fool”). Appeared near the beginning of the twentieth century; more information at booby § Etymology 1.
Noun
boob (plural boobs)
- (informal, derogatory) Idiot, fool.
- 2013: US Magazine
- He said he felt like such a boob in school and nobody talked to him.
Adjective
boob (not comparable)
- (informal, derogatory) Idiotic, foolish.
- 1971, Robert Beck, The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, →ISBN, page 220:
- Brother, to survive we must strip our total beings of any boob black bourgeoisie values and creampuff attitudes toward the horror in America which we might have absorbed.
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Verb
boob (third-person singular simple present boobs, present participle boobing, simple past and past participle boobed)
- To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.
- (informal, intransitive) To make a mistake
- 1969, “Alchemy”, in The Canadian Forum, volume 49, page 211:
- ...the younger generation will not altogether be grateful for the book in which they are contained — especially when he boobs in calling the Weavers a rock ensemble.
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Etymology 2
Clipped form of booby (“breast”). Appeared around 1945; more information at booby § Etymology 2.
Noun
boob (plural boobs)
- (colloquial, slang) A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent human female.
- 1974, Ernest Brawley, The Rap, page 256:
- Her boob had fallen out of her nightgown and now lay limp against the stained sheet.
- 2013, book cover for Mommy Has a Boo Boo in Her Boob by Kim Haskan
- Mommy Has a Boo Boo in Her Boob was written to help families who have been affected by breast cancer.
Synonyms
Translations
breast (colloquial)
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Etymology 3
Apparently shortened from booby-hatch.
Noun
boob (plural boobs)
- (Australia, US) A prison; jail. [from 20th c.]
- 1927, William Cooper, letter, in Heiss & Minter (eds.), Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 26:
- Then he got or was brought back to Mongumber he was tired to a tree and was belted by the white officer in charge put into the boob that they have ther I think of cause we cant say for a certain was was brought out of the boob dead or nearly.
- 1927, William Cooper, letter, in Heiss & Minter (eds.), Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 26:
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