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boobying

boobying is the present participle and gerund of booby.

Meaning of booby

Verb

booby (third-person singular simple present boobies, present participle boobying, simple past and past participle boobied)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To behave stupidly; to act like a booby.
    • Who lounge and who loot, and who booby about, / No knowledge within, and no manners without;1824, Washington Irving, “Proclamation”, in Salmagundi, volume 1
  2. (transitive) To install a booby trap on or at (something); to attack (someone) with a booby trap.
    • Self Boobied. Donald E. Campbell of Merritt Island, Fla., accidentally tripped on one of the shotgun shell booby traps he had installed1976, “Weekly Almanac”, in Jet, volume 22, page 44

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Questions about boobying

What is boobying the present participle and gerund of?
Boobying is the present participle and gerund of booby.

Words near boobying in the dictionary

  1. booby-trapping
  2. booby-traps
  3. boobyalla
  4. boobyallas
  5. Boobyer
  6. boobying
  7. boobyish
  8. boobyism
  9. boobyisms
  10. boobytrap
  11. boobytrapped

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