There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
booby
(noun) small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both
dumbbell, dummy, dope, boob, booby, pinhead
(noun) an ignorant or foolish person
Source: WordNet® 3.1
booby (plural boobies)
A stupid person.
Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid.
In the game of croquet, a ball that has not passed through the first wicket.
• (stupid person): fool
• (large tropical seabird): sulid
booby (third-person singular simple present boobies, present participle boobying, simple past and past participle boobied)
(rare, intransitive) To behave stupidly; to act like a booby.
(transitive) To install a booby trap on or at (something); to attack (someone) with a booby trap.
booby (plural boobies)
(colloquial) A woman’s breast.
Synonym: Thesaurus:breast
• yobbo
Source: Wiktionary
Boo"by, n.; pl. Boobies. Etym: [Sp. bobe dunce, idiot; cf. L. balbus stammering, E. barbarous.]
1. A dunce; a stupid fellow.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) 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. (b) A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.
Booby hatch (Naut.), a kind of wooden hood over a hatch, readily removable.
– Booby hut, a carriage body put upon sleigh runners. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.
– Booby hutch, a clumsy covered carriage or seat, used in the eastern part of England. Forby.
– Booby trap, a schoolboy's practical joke, as a shower bath when a door is opened.
Boo"by, a.
Definition: Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.