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booby

(n): an ignorant or foolish person
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3 months ago yarb said:

But there were some boobies and bumpkins there, who, by their intense greenness, must have come from the heart and centre of all verdure.

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 13

about 1 year ago brtom said:

... the son an awkward booby, reared up and spoiled at his mother’s apron-string.
Goldsmith, She Stoops, I

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