Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to booby
Participle: boobied
Gerund: boobying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | booby |
| you | booby |
| he;she;it | boobies |
| we | booby |
| you | booby |
| they | booby |
Perfect
| I | have boobied |
| you | have boobied |
| he;she;it | has boobied |
| we | have boobied |
| you | have boobied |
| they | have boobied |
Past
| I | boobied |
| you | boobied |
| he;she;it | boobied |
| we | boobied |
| you | boobied |
| they | boobied |
Pluperfect
| I | had boobied |
| you | had boobied |
| he;she;it | had boobied |
| we | had boobied |
| you | had boobied |
| they | had boobied |
Future
| I | will booby |
| you | will booby |
| he;she;it | will booby |
| we | will booby |
| you | will booby |
| they | will booby |
Future Perfect
| I | will have boobied |
| you | will have boobied |
| he;she;it | will have boobied |
| we | will have boobied |
| you | will have boobied |
| they | will have boobied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | booby |
| you | booby |
| he;she;it | booby |
| we | booby |
| you | booby |
| they | booby |
Perfect
| I | have boobied |
| you | have boobied |
| he;she;it | have boobied |
| we | have boobied |
| you | have boobied |
| they | have boobied |
Imperfect
| I | boobied |
| you | boobied |
| he;she;it | boobied |
| we | boobied |
| you | boobied |
| they | boobied |
Pluperfect
| I | had boobied |
| you | had boobied |
| he;she;it | had boobied |
| we | had boobied |
| you | had boobied |
| they | had boobied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would booby |
| you | would booby |
| he;she;it | would booby |
| we | would booby |
| you | would booby |
| they | would booby |
Perfect
| I | would have boobied |
| you | would have boobied |
| he;she;it | would have boobied |
| we | would have boobied |
| you | would have boobied |
| they | would have boobied |
Imperative
| you | booby |
| we | Let's booby |
| you | booby |
Verbs conjugated like 'booby'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'booby'
boob,
boody,
baby,
blob,
bloody,
bob,
body,
bogey,
bomb,
boo,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 17th century. From Spanish bobo, from Latin balbus (“stammering”).
2. (bird): Compare typologically Translingual Morus, German Tölpel, Polish głuptak (akin to głupek), Russian о́луша (óluša) (akin to о́лух (ólux)).
Sample Sentences
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Who lounge and who loot, and who booby about, / No knowledge within, and no manners without; [1824, Washington Irving, “Proclamation”, in Salmagundi, volume 1:]
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Self Boobied. Donald E. Campbell of Merritt Island, Fla., accidentally tripped on one of the shotgun shell booby traps he had installed [1976, “Weekly Almanac”, in Jet, volume 22, page 44:]