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Boob   /bub/   Listen
noun
boob  n.  
1.
An ignorant or foolish person.
Synonyms: dumbbell, dummy, dope, booby, pinhead.
2.
A female breast. (informal or vulgar)
Synonyms: breast, bosom, knocker, tit, titty.


verb
boob  v.  To commit a faux pas or fault.
Synonyms: sin, commit an offence, blunder, goof.





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"Boob" Quotes from Famous Books



... replied Sandy sarcastically. "Well, yuh just stick around this arternoon, an' yuh'll realize what a plumb egreg'us idjut a feller can become by livin' in town a spell. Why, yuh poor boob, the feller you're backin' to rake in the chips ain't got even a ghost of ...
— Bert Wilson in the Rockies • J. W. Duffield
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... that's what I'm doing it for, so don't get it into your head that I applied for the job. Let me take a look at you. I want to get a good square peep at a man who has the means to go somewhere else and yet is boob enough to come to this gosh-awful place of his own free will and accord. Darn it, you LOOK intelligent. I don't get you at all. What's the matter? Are you ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon
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... hear that cough-lozenge-peddling boob trying to tell me where to get off, in the proprietary ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
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... But, honest, for awhile there first off this young shrimp that was just makin' his debut as one of Miller's subslaves in the bondroom did get on my nerves more or less. He's a slim, fine-haired, fair-lookin' young gent, with quick, nervous ways and a habit of holdin' his chin well up. No boob, you understand. He was ...
— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford
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... to define it and, failing in her attempt, she said, with a giggle: "Oh, you are a boob. You certainly are a green one. Why, it's an organization, a lot of people who stick ...
— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan
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... flushed scarlet. The maid handed her a check for her rain-coat and said: "They hang around swell hotels, they do, and pick up acquaintance with likely looking and lonely boobs. Then the first thing the lonely boob knows he's had a good dinner with a new acquaintance and is strolling into a quiet but elegant looking house in the West Forties or Fifties." And the maid laughed, continuing her deft offices in the dressing-room, and the girl looked ...
— The Gay Rebellion • Robert W. Chambers
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... you old boob!" my friend replied. "How many times must I tell you that it is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts! Keep your shirt on till we get out to the castle, Doc; and in the meantime ich kebibble ...
— The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons • James Francis Thierry
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