booby has definitions from the field of zoology
1
[ noun ] an ignorant or foolish person

Used in print

(Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)

And this handsome booby , staring and sweating , was he her bridegroom ?

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simpleton sin

2
[ noun ] (zoology) small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both

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gannet Sula

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