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noun, plural boo-boos. Slang.
1.
a stupid or silly mistake; blunder.
2.
a minor injury.
Origin:
1950–55, Americanism; baby talk
1950–55, Americanism; baby talk
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| boo-boo | |
| —n , pl -boos | |
| informal an embarrassing mistake; blunder | |
| [C20: perhaps from nursery talk; compare | |
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Booboo
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
boo-boo
"mistake," 1954, apparently a reduplication of boob, which had acquired a secondary sense of "foolish mistake" (1934).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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boo-boo definition[ˈbubu]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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