What is "boobies"

Usage examples of "boobies".

Most of these birds were boobies, masked boobies, brown boobies, spotted boobies, but above all bluefaced boobies, heavy-witted birds with a slow, expressionless stare.

On to the well-watered, tree-covered Cocos Island, inhabited by boobies and man-of-war birds, a wonderfully welcome refreshment in spite of blinding rain and even fog - on to the shores of Guatemala, to the inhospitable island of Socorro, to Roca Partida, where the sharks were so fierce bold and ravenous that fishing was very nearly impossible - they took almost everything that was hooked, and the tackle too, and one rose to seize a man's hand over the gunwhale.

But as far as I know not one of the inky boobies ever saw what is as clear as the sun at midday - that as well as being the great epic of the world, the Iliad is a continued outcry against adultery.

They were perched on the back of a sleeping turtle, an amorous pair with glowing feet, and so great was their need and urgency (the day being unusually warm and propitious for boobies) that they were going through their ritual of courtship with extraordinary speed, and there was no doubt that the cock booby would have attained his end if the turtle had not submerged a moment too soon, leaving him strangely out of countenance.

The boobies, owls, frigate-birds, brown pelicans and hawks he strangled.

There are three boobies on deck, perfectly amazed, just abaft the blue cutter.

It is bloody miles from here - off the African Banks, and my family have never found any use for it except for collecting boobies’ eggs.

Clouds of birds rose when they landed - terns, boobies, men-of-war, frigates - but quickly settled again.

And this he did almost every day under his own immediate supervision, bringing in different teams, sometimes of officers alone, led by himself - how he loved pointing the gun - sometimes of midshipmen, but more often of the two extremes of the lower deck, the first and second captains on the one hand, and the boobies, the downright creeping lubbers on the other, in the hope that the best might grow better and the worst learn the exercise at least well enough to be of some use to the ship.

If the British boobies do provoke the Americans into a declaration of war, they may weep for these lost months.

But do not think I complain - that would be wicked ingratitude after the sight of the blue-faced booby, of six blue-faced boobies.

Yet in spite of the boobies being so common, one couple did fix Stephen's eye.

Sometimes they are almost as brief as the boobies', as when two of a like inclination exchange kind looks and after a short parley retire from view: I am thinking of Herodotus' account of the Greek and Amazon warriors in the pause after their truce for dinner, when individuals from either army would wander among the bushes, and of some more recent examples that have fallen under my own observation.

Perhaps they only wanted to see her boobies, maybe even tease them a bit.

Seven-eighths of Melanie's boobies revealed themselves beneath the vee of the tablecloth round her shoulders as Melanie's whip hand came down.