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Boob   /bub/   Listen
Boob

noun
1.
An ignorant or foolish person.  Synonyms: booby, dope, dumbbell, dummy, pinhead.
2.
Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman.  Synonyms: bosom, breast, knocker, tit, titty.



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"Boob" Quotes from Famous Books



... blue boob," he began abruptly with a sense of pleasant refreshment better than drink, "You great heaving purple ice wagon—" and then he was stopped abruptly for the policeman was taking the ...
— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet

... knows that the worst misprint is not that which makes nonsense but that which makes sense; not that which is obviously wrong but that which is hideously right. He who has essayed to write 'he got the book,' and has found it rendered mysteriously as 'he got the boob' is pensively resigned. It is when it is rendered quite lucidly as 'he got the boot' that he is moved to a more passionate mood of regret. I have had conversations in which this sort of accident would have wholly misled me, if another accident had not come to the rescue. An American friend ...
— What I Saw in America • G. K. Chesterton

... excess of his legitimate needs and then gets all puffed up with the notion he's got to give his son all the so-called advantages his own parents were too poor to afford him—or too sensible. The result is you turn out an undeveloped or over-developed boob, too proud to work and not able to take a real man's place in the world because he hasn't been taught how. And in the course of time he marries a female boob who has been raised according to the same general specifications, and nine times out of ten she's too refined to be bothered ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne

... a hick, bo, Sam Harris says I'm the best boob in the biz, And that no manager will cast me for anything else. Curses on my hit in "'Way Down East" That handcuffs me forever to yokels, And me a better character actor than Corse Payton! That's how ...
— The Broadway Anthology • Edward L. Bernays, Samuel Hoffenstein, Walter J. Kingsley, Murdock Pemberton



Words linked to "Boob" :   simple, sin, infract, go against, dumbbell, offend, violate, areola, breach, woman's body, transgress, simpleton, mammary gland, mamma, break, lactiferous duct, ring of color, adult female body



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