booboo

See also: bubo, boo-boo, and boo boo

English

Noun

booboo (plural booboos)

  1. Alternative form of boo-boo.

Gullah

Etymology

From Vai bubu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bu.bu/

Noun

booboo

  1. insect, especially one with a stinger
  2. fool

References

  • Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)