Word Study
boob
CIDE DICTIONARY
boob, v.
to commit a faux pas or fault. [WordNet 1.5]
boob, n.
- an ignorant or foolish person. [WordNet 1.5]
- a female breast. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
boob, n. & v. sl.
--n.
1 Brit. an embarrassing mistake.
2 a simpleton.
--v.intr. Brit. make an embarrassing mistake.
--n.
1 Brit. an embarrassing mistake.
2 a simpleton.
--v.intr. Brit. make an embarrassing mistake.
boob, n. sl. a woman's breast.
Idiom
boob tube sl.
1 a woman's low-cut close-fitting usu. strapless top.
2 (usu. prec. by the) US television; one's television set.
1 a woman's low-cut close-fitting usu. strapless top.
2 (usu. prec. by the) US television; one's television set.
Etymology
earlier bubby, booby, of uncert. orig.
THESAURUS
boob
Babbitt, Philistine, asshole, babe, bag, boeotian, boobs, booby, bosom, breast, breasts, brisket, bust, chest, chump, cinch, credulous person, crop, cull, ding-a-ling, dingbat, dingdong, dolt, dolthead, dug, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, fall guy, fathead, fish, fool, galoot, gobe-mouches, goof, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gull, innocent, jerk, jerk-off, klutz, knockers, leadpipe cinch, mama, mamelon, mamelonation, mammary gland, mammilla, mammillation, middlebrow, monkey, mutt, nenes, nipple, oaf, pap, papilla, patsy, pigeon, pigeon breast, plaything, prize sap, pushover, sap, saphead, sawney, schlemiel, sitting duck, stooge, sucker, teat, thorax, tit, tits, titties, titty, toy, trusting soul, udder, victimROGET THESAURUS
boob
Convexity
N convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble, tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness, convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated, (expanded).For further exploring for "boob" in Webster Dictionary Online