Booby

['buːbɪ]

解释:

(noun.) small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both.

整理:莉莲--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A dunce; a stupid fellow.

(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.

杰弗里整理

同义词及近义词:

n. [1]. Simpleton, fool, DUNCE.[2]. (Ornith.) Gannet, noddy, solan goose (Sula bassana).

录入:内丽

同义词及反义词:

SYN:Idiot, dunce, numskull

ANT:Wiseacre, solon, oracle

杜安整理

解释:

n. a silly or stupid fellow: a sea-bird of the gannet tribe remarkable for its apparent stupidity in allowing itself to be knocked down with a stick.—adjs. Boo′by Boo′byish like a booby: stupid.—ns. Boo′byism; Boo′by-trap a rude form of practical joke among boys by which something is made to fall upon some one entering a door or the like.

整理:伊冯

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录入:朱迪思

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