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Booby (Lady)

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A caricature on Richardson’s Pamʹela. A vulgar upstart, who tries to seduce Joseph Andrews. (Fielding: Joseph Andrews.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bonnet Lairds
Bonnet-piece
Bonnet Rouge
Bonnie Dundee
Bonnyclabber
Bono Johnny
Bontemps
Bonus
Bonzes (sing. Bonze)
Booby
Booby (Lady)
Booby-trap (A)
Book (Ang.-Saxon, boc; Danish, beuke; German, buche, a beech-tree)
Book
Book
Book of Books (The)
Book of Life (The)
Books
Book-keeper
Book-keeping
Bookworm