booby

booby is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A dunce; a stupid fellow. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A dunce; a stupid fellow.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.
4. adjective. Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.
5. noun. small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both
6. noun. an ignorant or foolish person

   Synonyms: boob, dope, dumbbell, dummy, pinhead

Synonyms

boob, dope, dumbbell, dummy, pinhead

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in booby:

yobbo

Common word forms

boobies, boobily

Words from these letters

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