a. [f. BOOBY sb. + -ISH1.] Savoring of the booby, awkwardly silly.
1778. Miss Burney, Evelina (1794), I. 185. Till the violence of this boobyish humour is abated.
1839. Hallam, Hist. Lit., III. III. vi. § 38. 305. Awkward and boobyish among civil people, but at home in rude sports.
