Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several seabirds of the genera Sula and Papasula of tropical and subtropical waters, having a pointed bill and tail, long wings, and a light-colored underside.
  • noun A person regarded as stupid.
  • noun A woman's breast.
  • noun A male mammary gland that has become enlarged by the influence of estrogen or appears enlarged because of excess fat over the gland.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish bobo, stupid, foolish, booby (because the seabirds can be caught easily when they alight on ships at sea), from Latin balbus, stammering, of imitative origin.]

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Perhaps alteration of obsolete English bubby.]

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