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booby

/boo-bee/US // ˈbu bi //UK // (ˈbuːbɪ) //

诱饵,鹦鹉,塘鹅,矮人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural boo·bies.

    • : a stupid person; dunce.
    • : a gannet of the genus Sula, having a bright bill, bright feet, or both: some are endangered.

Examples

  • Agents also found a box labeled with the words “Booby Trap.”

  • Exploding heads, zombie-tiger maulings, the most spectacular body-crushed-into-goo special effect at a booby-trapped bank vault.

  • Yo, gullible rube, you yokel ogler -- remember, you like me for my booby look.

  • The video also shows a handgun on Lemp’s nightstand and a booby trap attached to a door — avoided by the SWAT team — that led from outside the house directly into Lemp’s bedroom.

  • The young Bezos was a science fiction nerd who built homemade booby traps to delight his obviously patient family.

  • Diane Wilkerson: Booby-Trapped State Senator It has taken a lot to stand out as corrupt in Massachusetts politics recently.

  • In the afternoon we landed on Booby Island and at night procured turtles, and about a thousand eggs.

  • Lady Booby, few as are the strokes given to her, is not much less alive than Lady Bellaston.

  • Booby traps were numerous, and special companies were hunting for them.

  • The Booby Isle was soon reached, and our sport there was equal to any we had elsewhere.

  • They think they might have been forced to lie out all night but for the sagacity of "Booby."