Meanings
adjectiveboobyish (comparative more boobyish, superlative most boobyish)
comparative more boobyish · superlative most boobyish
- obsoleteStupid; dull-witted.
"[…] I have therefore determined to make a pretense for suddenly leaving this place, dear as it is to me, and containing all I most admire and adore;—and I will stay in town till the violence of this boobyish humour is abated."
1778, Fanny Burney, Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, Letter XXXIV
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