boobyish

English

Etymology

Adjective

boobyish (comparative more boobyish, superlative most boobyish)

Stupid; dull-witted.
- 1778, Fanny Burney, Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, Letter XXXIV,
  " […] I have therefore determined to make a pretense for suddenly leaving this place, dear as it is to me, and containing all I most admire and adore;—and I will stay in town till the violence of this boobyish humour is abated."

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for boobyish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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