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nounbuːbbub informal 1British An embarrassing mistake. 〈英〉失策，过失 the boob was spotted by a security expert at the show Example sentencesExamples - It overcame the curse of the solitary writer by creating a Jekyll-Hyde pairing, the crass boob with a commercial touch and the angst-ridden elitist sibling.
- They are either a spectacular boob or the cat's whiskers.
- They're a drunken ex-general and a stumbling boob, and they go off in search of the ex-general's son, who's gone off to be a guru.
- The team thinks the thieves will just dump the gear when they realise their boob and players are appealing for it to be returned.
- The boob happened when the presenters stepped up to the stage to accept a gong for best daytime programme.
- This is a major boob, because credit cards charge staggeringly high interest rates.
- The London newspaper which made the boob quickly acknowledged its error, and he took his seat in Parliament.
- Burnley's arrangements for the town's next mayor have had to be changed after a mathematics boob led to the wrong man being put up for the job.
- The hook for his new venture is helping others to avoid the blunders that he and his boob of a boss made when disaster struck in Louisiana.
- A science-guy, described by colleagues as ‘a silly boob,’ confused the tub containing the live rats with the one containing the dead rats.
- He will learn from his boob and it cannot detract from his performance.
Synonyms error, mistake, miscalculation, fallacy, slip, oversight, fault, blunder, gaffe, defect, flaw 2North American A foolish or stupid person. 〈北美〉笨蛋，蠢人 why was that boob given a key investigation? Example sentencesExamples - If he made some Americans scorn their boob or yokel neighbors, he made others - there's no way of numbering them - laugh at themselves.
- Humanity has come so far, yet we're still just a bunch of blundering boobs who've learned nothing from past mistakes.
- Of course, if Homeland Security had swooped down on the harmless replica, that would have been taken as evidence they were incompetent boobs as well.
- That would have been great, except for the fact that the incompetent boobs didn't order enough gift vouchers and so they had run out.
- After all, he got a fellow widely derided as a boob into the White House, and then he guided a gigantic relieve-the-rich tax cut through Congress.
- But you know, in Washington, I work with boobs every day.
- Tom this is your cue to talk about boobs on drugs,
- Homer is at heart an amiable boob, a man who genuinely wants to do right and often manages to.
- Lest it seem that I think that all journalists are ignorant boobs, I should note that there are exceptions.
- ‘I'm not calling him a boob,’ Stuart said.
- But I am an absolute boob about all this chaos magic stuff.
- Carol had always been a bit of a boob and Marie figured Zizi had tricked him into it.
- So at the risk of sounding like a boob, I think we're going win this generational struggle to determine the future shape of the world.
- The bulk of the movie centers on Schmidt traveling to Colorado to try to stop his daughter from marrying a redneck boob.
- In the few scenes shown from the Union's side, we get the impression of incompetent boobs more afraid of the cold than command.
Synonyms idiot, fool, stupid person, simpleton, moron, cretin, imbecile, ignoramus, oaf, dunce, dolt, dullard, nincompoop, duffer, jackass
verbbuːbbub [no object]British informal Make an embarrassing mistake. 〈英〉失策，过失 we found that we had boobed and the booking was for the previous week Example sentencesExamples - I suggest we get as many people as possible to write in with a response so the paper knows it has boobed.
- 20,000 lives would have been lost, not the two million that boobs like you repeat.
- I've had my knuckles rapped for a venue boob I made last week.
- OK, I admit I boobed on the Marie Antoinette let-them-eat-cake thing.
- But he knew he'd boobed when he named the team - and left himself on the bench.
- He should also be applauded for having the guts to admit he might have boobed and wrongly made one of the most crucial decisions in the match.
- Their scratch card quizzes for cash have boobed twice.
- Hmmmm, perhaps that's why my economic theory about spending your way out of a depression didn't work, but Keynes boobed on that one too.
- An artist boobed after his painting of a breastfeeding mum attracted a number of complaints from staff on a maternity ward.
- Even when the Frenchman boobed the luck went United's way.
Synonyms perpetrate, commit, be responsible for, be guilty of, be to blame for
OriginEarly 20th century: abbreviation of booby1. Boob meaning ‘mistake’ is an abbreviation of booby ‘stupid or childish person’ in use two centuries earlier and probably derived from Spanish bobo, from Latin balbus ‘stammering’. Boo-boo which arose in the 1950s in the US for ‘mistake’ is from boob, as is the slang term boob tube (mid 20th century) for a television. Also American is boob for ‘breast’. This is an abbreviation of another booby, a 1930s alteration of dialect bubby. There is perhaps a connection with German dialect Bübbi ‘teat’.
Rhymescube, droob, j'adoube, jube, lube, rube, tube nounbuːbbub usually boobsinformal A woman's breast. 〈非正式〉（女人的）乳房 Example sentencesExamples - I don't understand what it is about boobs everyone finds so fascinating.
- I didn't even want to think what his reaction would be if the doc got anywhere near my boobs.
- Her tummy is trim, her legs long (for obvious reasons), her boobs big, and her butt nice and round.
- Headlines of big boobs, fat butts and scandalous stories are always on the front pages.
- I know, girls are meant to be padded, and I'm not trying to avoid that; I like my boobs, I fully intend to keep them, and I think women look better with some curves to them.
- But she admitted there are certain things she wore back then that she would not wear now, such as navel breakers or deep-cut tops with her boobs sticking out.
- When removing one's lifejacket upon returning to the boat, check first to see that your right boob has not slipped out of your bikini.
- If one more idiot drooled at my boobs, I was going to scream.
- People came up and congratulated me and my boob just slipped out.
- And where did those giant boobs come from suddenly?
- When you have a baby and decide to breast feed that baby, you are going to enter the world of leaking boobs.
- He reached over, grabbed my boob and said it was right there.
- Jon asks with barely any interest, ‘Was that her boob?’
- The way to change my life and the way to fix everything is to go and change a cheekbone or an eye or a boob…
- You were distracted by a pair of boobs and a stupid blonde!
- A blonde girl, hmmm, with big boobs, that's not so easy to pinpoint, there have been a quite a few of them on the show.
Origin1950s (originally US): abbreviation of booby2, from dialect bubby, of uncertain origin; perhaps related to German dialect Bübbi 'teat'. nounbubbo͞ob informal 1North American A foolish or stupid person. 〈北美〉笨蛋，蠢人 why was that boob given a key investigation? Example sentencesExamples - After all, he got a fellow widely derided as a boob into the White House, and then he guided a gigantic relieve-the-rich tax cut through Congress.
- But I am an absolute boob about all this chaos magic stuff.
- Of course, if Homeland Security had swooped down on the harmless replica, that would have been taken as evidence they were incompetent boobs as well.
- Humanity has come so far, yet we're still just a bunch of blundering boobs who've learned nothing from past mistakes.
- Carol had always been a bit of a boob and Marie figured Zizi had tricked him into it.
- In the few scenes shown from the Union's side, we get the impression of incompetent boobs more afraid of the cold than command.
- Tom this is your cue to talk about boobs on drugs,
- That would have been great, except for the fact that the incompetent boobs didn't order enough gift vouchers and so they had run out.
- Lest it seem that I think that all journalists are ignorant boobs, I should note that there are exceptions.
- Homer is at heart an amiable boob, a man who genuinely wants to do right and often manages to.
- ‘I'm not calling him a boob,’ Stuart said.
- So at the risk of sounding like a boob, I think we're going win this generational struggle to determine the future shape of the world.
- But you know, in Washington, I work with boobs every day.
- The bulk of the movie centers on Schmidt traveling to Colorado to try to stop his daughter from marrying a redneck boob.
- If he made some Americans scorn their boob or yokel neighbors, he made others - there's no way of numbering them - laugh at themselves.
Synonyms idiot, fool, stupid person, simpleton, moron, cretin, imbecile, ignoramus, oaf, dunce, dolt, dullard, nincompoop, duffer, jackass 2British An embarrassing mistake. 〈英〉失策，过失 Example sentencesExamples - It overcame the curse of the solitary writer by creating a Jekyll-Hyde pairing, the crass boob with a commercial touch and the angst-ridden elitist sibling.
- He will learn from his boob and it cannot detract from his performance.
- The London newspaper which made the boob quickly acknowledged its error, and he took his seat in Parliament.
- The team thinks the thieves will just dump the gear when they realise their boob and players are appealing for it to be returned.
- They're a drunken ex-general and a stumbling boob, and they go off in search of the ex-general's son, who's gone off to be a guru.
- The hook for his new venture is helping others to avoid the blunders that he and his boob of a boss made when disaster struck in Louisiana.
- A science-guy, described by colleagues as ‘a silly boob,’ confused the tub containing the live rats with the one containing the dead rats.
- The boob happened when the presenters stepped up to the stage to accept a gong for best daytime programme.
- Burnley's arrangements for the town's next mayor have had to be changed after a mathematics boob led to the wrong man being put up for the job.
- They are either a spectacular boob or the cat's whiskers.
- This is a major boob, because credit cards charge staggeringly high interest rates.
Synonyms error, mistake, miscalculation, fallacy, slip, oversight, fault, blunder, gaffe, defect, flaw
verbbubbo͞ob [no object]British informal Make an embarrassing mistake. 〈英〉失策，过失 Example sentencesExamples - Hmmmm, perhaps that's why my economic theory about spending your way out of a depression didn't work, but Keynes boobed on that one too.
- OK, I admit I boobed on the Marie Antoinette let-them-eat-cake thing.
- 20,000 lives would have been lost, not the two million that boobs like you repeat.
- Even when the Frenchman boobed the luck went United's way.
- I've had my knuckles rapped for a venue boob I made last week.
- He should also be applauded for having the guts to admit he might have boobed and wrongly made one of the most crucial decisions in the match.
- I suggest we get as many people as possible to write in with a response so the paper knows it has boobed.
- Their scratch card quizzes for cash have boobed twice.
- But he knew he'd boobed when he named the team - and left himself on the bench.
- An artist boobed after his painting of a breastfeeding mum attracted a number of complaints from staff on a maternity ward.
Synonyms perpetrate, commit, be responsible for, be guilty of, be to blame for
OriginEarly 20th century: abbreviation of booby. nounbubbo͞ob usually boobsinformal A woman's breast. 〈非正式〉（女人的）乳房 Example sentencesExamples - If one more idiot drooled at my boobs, I was going to scream.
- I know, girls are meant to be padded, and I'm not trying to avoid that; I like my boobs, I fully intend to keep them, and I think women look better with some curves to them.
- The way to change my life and the way to fix everything is to go and change a cheekbone or an eye or a boob…
- I don't understand what it is about boobs everyone finds so fascinating.
- When removing one's lifejacket upon returning to the boat, check first to see that your right boob has not slipped out of your bikini.
- He reached over, grabbed my boob and said it was right there.
- Headlines of big boobs, fat butts and scandalous stories are always on the front pages.
- A blonde girl, hmmm, with big boobs, that's not so easy to pinpoint, there have been a quite a few of them on the show.
- Her tummy is trim, her legs long (for obvious reasons), her boobs big, and her butt nice and round.
- People came up and congratulated me and my boob just slipped out.
- Jon asks with barely any interest, ‘Was that her boob?’
- And where did those giant boobs come from suddenly?
- You were distracted by a pair of boobs and a stupid blonde!
- But she admitted there are certain things she wore back then that she would not wear now, such as navel breakers or deep-cut tops with her boobs sticking out.
- I didn't even want to think what his reaction would be if the doc got anywhere near my boobs.
- When you have a baby and decide to breast feed that baby, you are going to enter the world of leaking boobs.
Origin1920s (originally US): abbreviation of booby, from dialect bubby, of uncertain origin; perhaps related to German dialect Bübbi ‘teat’. |