(n.) A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby.
(n.) A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.
(a.) Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Sustainable tourism company Sumak Travel offers tailor-made journeys to Veracruz, and other parts of Mexico Los Islotes , Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico Steve Backshall , naturalist and TV presenter Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Just two hours from La Paz in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, Los Islotes is a rocky California sea lion colony, peppered with resting blue-footed boobies, cormorants and pelicans.
(2) Friday night's attack came just hours a after police discovered a booby trap bomb device underneath a car also in west Belfast.
(3) She said she refuses to let anyone inside the room, and sweeps it for cameras and “booby traps.” She said she is taunted daily about the videos, which are still online.
(4) But they can at least lay booby-traps to confuse and deter – a concept known as “active defence”.
(5) Observations in 1969 and 1970 implicated the monkeys in a drastic decline of the nesting populations of brown boobies (Sula leucogaster) and red-footed boobies (Sula sula).
(6) Holmes, still clad in body armour, told police he had booby-trapped his apartment.
(7) So I invited my friends to my "Bye Bye Boobies" Party.
(8) Alan Boobis said: “My role in ILSI (and two of its branches) is as a public sector member and chair of their boards of trustees, positions which are not remunerated.
(9) The recent proliferation of articles linking fetal scalp or cord blood evidence of metabolic acidosis to birth asphyxia threatens to create another legal booby trap.
(10) There are several beaches near busy Padstow, including wide golden Booby's Bay – sure to make kids giggle, and a hit with advanced surfers.
(11) A succession of police and federal agents testified that Holmes spent weeks amassing guns and ammunition, concocted explosives to booby-trap his apartment, scouted the movie theatre before the attack and took a series of chilling photographs .
(12) The witnesses said that in late June he began equipping himself with a helmet, gas mask and body armour; and in July he began buying fuses, gunpowder, chemicals and electronics to booby-trap his apartment in the hope of triggering an explosion and fire to divert police from the theatre.
(13) "No," reassured Lynch, "Eigg's sea name is Isle of the Big Women, so most probably it will be an effigy of a woman with giant boobies."
(14) It's not an insurance policy, it is a potential booby trap," he said.
(15) These disgruntled republicans were responsible for murdering the Catholic PSNI constable Ronan Kerr with an under-car booby trap in April 2011.
(16) The walls and entrances were also booby-trapped, and two large plastic containers were put in the middle of the floor.
(17) An advisory position held by Boobis at Efsa was discontinued in 2012.
(18) We have seen letter bombs, under-car booby traps, blast bombs, hijackings.
(19) Thus, expression of this DNA construct generates a pool of CD4+ booby-trapped cells that, as a population, are resistant to HIV infection.
(20) It took several hours, and a bomb-disposal robot that checked Sonboly’s body for booby-trap explosives, to confirm that in fact there was only one attacker, and he had committed suicide early on in the evening.
Boozy
Definition:
(a.) A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.
Example Sentences:
(1) But how and when would the boozy, workshy, adorable slob who had spent 30 years twice a week in millions of British living rooms go?
(2) The assumption goes that it's a boozy, thrilling free-for-all, where brilliant ideas pour continuously out of the mouths of equally brilliant people.
(3) For a light lunch or boozy dinner there is the Agni Taverna, the outdoor restaurant where "pure poison" dripped when Mandelson, Osborne and Rothschild dined together.
(4) But to quote Hamlet, "the play's the thing" in Michael Grandage's cracking production, which makes an entertainingly boozy brew of humor both sweet and savage, melancholy sentimentality, lacerating sorrow and wicked cruelty."
(5) The promise of post-feminism after all was some Manolo Blahniks, a Mr Big or Darcy, some cracking sex toys, boozy nights out with the girls.
(6) First aired in the 1960s with Dean Martin as host, television roasts (Frank Sinatra and Ed Sullivan were among those roasted) were neutered versions of their boozy progenitors, but they were still barbed and borderline offensive – the "homage" to Sammy Davis Jr came very close to the bone on his race and chosen faith.
(7) I disagree: Baldwin is taking sides and backing Luke – the boozy, jazzy, truthful husband.
(8) The action ranges from set-piece speeches to packed fringe meetings and boozy parties.
(9) I enjoy listening to live music in the evenings or meeting with friends at our (rather boozy!)
(10) He outlined alleged purchases of more than $2,000 for interior furnishings, a boozy group dinner at the Press Club restaurant in Melbourne totalling about $2,200, videos and PlayStation games.
(11) It overran by hours and it was boozy and hilarious and it was the first time since I moved to New York that I had seen stand-ups trying stuff so obviously bespoke.
(12) A secret telegram sent by the US embassy in Azerbaijan revealed how Russia's defence minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, gave his own views after a boozy evening in February 2009 with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Safar Abiyev.
(13) What an irony if Nigel Farage MEP, a boozy metal trader from the under-regulated City of London, proved to be Britain's last, toxic contribution to the project.
(14) They followed this by a boozy session of rollerskating and organ music before we next saw Peggy swaggering into McCann looking like a rock star with her Wayfarers, Burt’s picture (see culture watch) and a cigarette dangling at a perfectly Richardsian angle.
(15) There was this awful voice.” John Gorton According to veteran journalist Laurie Oakes, former prime minister John Gorton once boarded a VIP jet in Melbourne after a boozy official dinner, and: He fell asleep, was woken a while later by the noise of the engines, and vomited.
(16) He learned to write plays by performing in taverns and inn yards; his speeches had to silence boozy peasants and heckling gentry.
(17) With hits like Stay With Me, I'd Rather Go Blind and Had Me a Real Good Time they were one of the most successful bands of the early 1970s and particularly successful live where, with their brand of boozy, good-time camaraderie, they bonded with the predominantly male audiences.
(18) The boozy lunches that were a hallmark of City life before deregulation in the 1980s are long gone.
(19) "), but even his friends have talked of a self-destructive streak, and by all accounts the 80s were a pretty boozy, promiscuous time.
(20) Shang, who has also played the leader in television dramas, is hired not for boozy weddings but staid official events.