Booby definition

Booby

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WordNet

(1) Small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both

(2) An ignorant or foolish person

WiktionaryText

A stupid person.
Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid.

Variant of the earlier bubby. The shortened term boob is a further development from this.

a woman’s breast

At ten o’clock she was lying on the divan with her boobies in her hands. — Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, 1934