Booby: Definition and part of speech

Booby

  1. a. Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.
  2. n. A dunce; a stupid fellow.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Boodle: Definition and part of speech

Boodle

  1. n. Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag.
  2. n. The whole collection or lot; caboodle.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.