Adjective: booby
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | boobier |
| Superlative | boobiest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more booby |
| Superlative | most booby |
Sample Sentences
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When we arrived at the houſe, I was in the utmoſt confuſion; for the booby ſervants ſtood gaping and grinning at my diſtreſs, and Sir Sampſson himſelf told me, with a laugh as horrible as Caliban's, that he would lend me one of his maids to carry me out airing every morning. [1755 January 23, The Connoisseur, 3rd edition, volume 2, number 52, published 1757, page 131:]
Adjectives inflected like booby
snubby,
snithy,
snorty,
snoopy,
sainty,
screwy,
scowly,
schizy,
smacky,
slimsy,
slanty,
slaggy,
songly,
soothy,
shysty,
shiply,
skeezy,
beastly,
yearny,
whip-creamy, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
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)). See: Spanish Adjectives '
bobo', Latin Adjectives '
balbus'.