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. 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.

2. Yossi Melman:

   I stopped believing the reports from the official and semi-official media in Iran regarding the circumstances around the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, they are publishing various and even contradictory details : Assassins ? Motorcyclists ? A booby-trapped car ? A machine gun that fires automatically ? It seems to me that Iranian and Israeli intelligence to which this is attributed deals with psychological warfare, disinformation, and the obstruction of evidence.

3. 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.

4. Sharfan Darwish:

   The situation is under control. They have many bodies on the ground, we are at the four gates to the city. The whole city is booby-trapped. After 20 days of the campaign, we have yet to storm the city.

5. Francois Molins:

   The supermarket had also been booby-trapped.