Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To look angry or gruff.

Etymologies

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

[Alteration of booty.]

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Examples

  • Schor's coyly cerebral painting surely has accumulated the kind of familiarity and status over the last two decades that fates it to become a singular icon of feminist painting for a new generation of feminists on par with the impact that Judy Chicago's historic and "boody"Red Flag had on Schorr's generation.

    G. Roger Denson: Women Artists Sweep Best of 2010 NYC Arts (SLIDESHOW) G. Roger Denson 2010

  • Schor's coyly cerebral painting surely has accumulated the kind of familiarity and status over the last two decades that fates it to become a singular icon of feminist painting for a new generation of feminists on par with the impact that Judy Chicago's historic and "boody"Red Flag had on Schorr's generation.

    G. Roger Denson: Women Artists Sweep Best of 2010 NYC Arts (SLIDESHOW) G. Roger Denson 2010

  • Schor's coyly cerebral painting surely has accumulated the kind of familiarity and status over the last two decades that fates it to become a singular icon of feminist painting for a new generation of feminists on par with the impact that Judy Chicago's historic and "boody"Red Flag had on Schorr's generation.

    G. Roger Denson: Women Artists Sweep Best of 2010 NYC Arts (SLIDESHOW) G. Roger Denson 2010

  • Schor's coyly cerebral painting surely has accumulated the kind of familiarity and status over the last two decades that fates it to become a singular icon of feminist painting for a new generation of feminists equalling that of Judy Chicago's historic and "boody"

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com G. Roger Denson 2010

  • Market Saw has a good list of 3d movies and is careful not to fall for the 3d animation problem. rajshekar dude wat about my boody valentine this suppposed to be in 3d right..... lunettes 3D yes, it is.

    The Ultimate 3D Movie Preview and Release Date Schedule | /Film 2009

  • Woodcock, 25, of Glennallen, Alaska, was killed March 11 in Ad Dawr, north of Baghdad, when a boody-trapped building exploded.

    March glimpses 2007

  • A good decent show with no boody shots or swearing.

    MEN IN TREES Cancelled | the TV addict 2008

  • It seems necessary to announce on the internet as many times as possible that Katie Meyer was boody-slapped by a pair of large-and-in-charge girls on Friday night.

    senorcoconut Diary Entry senorcoconut 2004

  • I laid the Cawm'ell pup i 'yer boody (_scarecrow_) airms wi' my ain han's, upo 'the tap o' yer curst scraighin 'bagpipes

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

  • Then he is left to boody over everything by himself till he becomes a sort of political hermit, or ministerial Lama, whom human eyes are not to look upon.

    The Prime Minister 1876

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  • Citation on boodie, which is a completely separate word.

    January 12, 2009