Breast vs. Booby

(anatomy) Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.

Example: ‘Tanya's breasts grew remarkably during pregnancy.’;

(anatomy) The chest, or front of the human thorax.

A section of clothing covering the breast area.

The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one's heart or innermost thoughts.

Example: ‘She kindled hope in the breast of all who heard her.’;

The ventral portion of an animal's thorax.

Example: ‘The robin has a red breast.’;

A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.

Example: ‘Would you like breast or wing?’;

The front or forward part of anything.

Example: ‘a chimney breast; a plough breast’;

(mining) The face of a coal working.

(mining) The front of a furnace.

(obsolete) The power of singing; a musical voice.

To push against with the breast; to meet full on, oppose, face

Example: ‘He breasted the hill and saw the town before him.’;

The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat.

Example: ‘My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother.’;

Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill.

Example: ‘Mountains on whose barren breastThe laboring clouds do often rest.’;

The face of a coal working.

The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart.

Example: ‘He has a loyal breast.’;

The power of singing; a musical voice; - so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast.

Example: ‘By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast.’;

To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.

Example: ‘The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer.’;

the front part of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen;

Example: ‘he beat his breast in anger’;

either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman

meat carved from the breast of a fowl

meet at breast level;

Example: ‘The runner breasted the tape’;

reach the summit;

Example: ‘They breasted the mountain’;

confront bodily;

Example: ‘breast the storm’;

either of the two soft, protruding organs on the upper front of a woman's body which secrete milk after childbirth

Example: ‘Caroline crossed her arms over her breasts’; ‘breast cancer’;

a person's chest, especially when regarded as the seat of the emotions

Example: ‘her heart was hammering in her breast’; ‘wild feelings of frustration were rising up in his breast’;

the part of a bird or mammal that corresponds to a person's chest

Example: ‘the breast feathers of the doves’;

a joint of meat or portion of poultry cut from the breast of a bird or mammal

Example: ‘Lisa popped a breast of chicken into the microwave’;

the part of a garment that covers the chest

Example: ‘a breast pocket’;

face and move forwards against or through (something)

Example: ‘I watched him breast the wave’;

reach the top of (a hill)

Example: ‘a pair of riders breasted the rise ahead’;

The breast is one of two prominences located on the upper ventral region of the torso of primates. In females, it serves as the mammary gland, which produces and secretes milk to feed infants.

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.

(colloquial) A woman’s breast.

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.

A dunce; a stupid fellow.

A swimming bird (Sula fiber or Sula 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 - unafraid of men, it allows itself to be caught by a simple and undisguised approach. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, Sula piscator, the red-footed booby; and Sula nebouxii, the blue-footed booby.

Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.

an ignorant or foolish person

small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both

A booby is a seabird in the genus Sula, part of the family Sulidae. Boobies are closely related to the gannets (Morus), which were formerly included in Sula.