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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an ignorant or foolish person [syn: dumbbell, dummy, dope, boob, booby, pinhead]
2: either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman [syn: breast, bosom, knocker, boob, tit, titty] v
1: commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; "I blundered during the job interview" [syn: drop the ball, sin, blunder, boob, goof]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: short for ¹booby Date: 1907 1. a stupid awkward person ; simpleton 2. boor, Philistine • boobish adjective II. noun Etymology: ³boob Date: 1934 British mistake, blunder III. intransitive verb Etymology: ¹boob Date: 1935 British goof 2 IV. noun Etymology: short for ²booby Date: circa 1931 sometimes vulgar breast

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. & v. sl. --n. 1 Brit. an embarrassing mistake. 2 a simpleton. --v.intr. Brit. make an embarrassing mistake. Etymology: abbr. of BOOBY 2. n. sl. a woman's breast. Phrases and idioms: 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. Etymology: earlier bubby, booby, of uncert. orig.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(boobs, boobing, boobed) 1. A woman's boobs are her breasts. (INFORMAL, RUDE) = breast N-COUNT: usu pl 2. If you boob, you make a mistake. (BRIT INFORMAL) Is their timing right, or have they boobed again? VERB: V • Boob is also a noun. The government once again has made a big boob. = blunder N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

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, victim