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 Translation for 'boob' from English to French
NOUN   a boob | boobs
VERB   to boob | boobed | boobed
boobing | boobs
SYNO boob | booby | bosom | ...
faire des conneries [fam.]to boob [Br.] [coll.]
gaffe {f} [fam.]boob [Br.] [coll.] [blunder]
anat.
nichon {m} [fam.]
boob [coll.] [woman's breast]
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Usage Examples English
  • The rich array of pejoratives for television (for example, "boob tube" and "chewing gum for the mind" and so forth) indicate a disdain held by many people for this medium.
  • She hit one of her breasts, and after a few days someone asked her in Norwegian: "Is your boob okay?
  • A large number of local dairy companies produce the well-known local buffalo mozzarella ("Mozzarella di bufala campana DOP"), a famous form of which is called "zizzona di Battipaglia" (Battipaglia "boob") because of its similarity to a female breast.
  • Money raised from the sale of the Thing-a-ma-boob will go towards funding breast cancer research, providing support services for victims and their families, as well as prevention and advocacy initiatives.
  • In British and Australian English, they are informally known as boob tubes.

  • Underboob tattoos are generally done under the breasts but could wrap around the sternum, cleavage, side boob and ribs.
  • Describing 2022 as "the year of the boob" in August 2022, "El Mundo" wrote that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez had threatened to pull Spain out of the ESC if broadcasters censored Ribó performing topless, should that have happened, with his cabinet supporting the idea of Ribó performing topless at Benidorm Fest.
  • The slang term "the tube" or the "boob tube" derives from the bulky cathode-ray tube used on most TVs until the advent of flat-screen TVs.
  • On the cover Rihanna is drawing a sexual desire from her fingers clawing her fresh, her gun tattoo pointing towards her side boob.
  • In a widely reported interview published in 1975, Buzhardt inquired whether the public would prefer "a competent scoundrel or an honest boob" as president, and he lamented that invasive media coverage inhibited good governance.

  • CoppaFeel! gained widespread media coverage when they a decorated "The Angel of the North" with a ‘boob hijack’ sticker.
  • In the 2000s, the practice of "body contouring" – the application of contouring to other parts of the body than the face, such as shinbones or breasts ("boob contouring") – became more widely noticed as a result of the increasing number of images of celebrities appearing in social media.
  • The swear words used are often with references to the Old Norse gods, for example "Baldur's balls", "Freya's boob" and "Ymir's giant ass".
  • It claims to be a less invasive alternative to surgical breast enlargement, offering an increase of one cup size through injections that take between 30 and 90 minutes — colloquially referred to as the "30-minute boob job".
  • "Click"– A father finds it difficult to take his eyes off the boob tube.

  • "Suso" is the term most often applied to the breasts, but it is not considered profane and has connotations of breastfeeding; "boob", imported from English slang, is the most widely used term for breasts that might be considered impolite.
  • The word "boob" stems from the Spanish [...] meaning silly, which in turn came from the Latin [...] meaning stammering; the word booby to mean dunce appeared in 1599.
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