booby

Other forms of booby

plural

boobies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about booby

What does booby mean?

booby means "an ignorant or foolish person". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in booby?

booby has 2 syllables: boo-by. The stress falls on "boo". In IPA it is /ˈbubi/.

What is another word for booby?

Close synonyms include dumbbell, dummy, dope, boob, pinhead. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is booby a common word?

booby is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.