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形容詞

boobyish (comparative more boobyish, superlative most boobyish)

1. (obsolete) Stupid; dull-witted.
   • 1778, Fanny Burney, Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, Letter XXXIV, [1]

     " […] 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."

参照

• “boobyish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.