bobo

• IPA^(key): /ˈboʊboʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -oʊboʊ
• Hyphenation: bo‧bo

Blend of bourgeois +‎ bohemian, popularized by David Brooks to describe the 1990s equivalent of the yuppie.^[1]

bobo (plural bobos)

1. A materialistic person who affects an anti-materialistic persona.
   • 2000, David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise […] , Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 207:

     The small things—an olive grove or a small chapel—take on greater meaning to a Bobo on vacation.

   • 2011 April 12, Alex Lobrano, “Bobo Heaven in Paris”, in T Magazine‎^[1], retrieved 26 June 2019:

     Peruse the Paris papers these days and you'll notice an obsession with bobos: no, they're not a team of cheerleaders or a troupe of clowns, but rich, artsy types known as bourgeois bohemians, who are now pretty much the tip of Parisian tastemakers. So when friends who were recently staying in Saint Germain des Pres asked me where to go to people watch, I told them to head for the Ninth Arrondissement citadel of bobo cool.

2. A self-styled bodyguard or groupie of the nouveau riche (such as a professional athlete or musician)
3. An imitation of something, particularly a well known product, usually lower in quality than the original.

Borrowed from French bobo (“boo-boo”).

bobo (plural bobos)

1. (Louisiana, Montreal) A boo-boo (minor injury)

• boob, obbo

From Proto-Austronesian *bubu.

bobo

1. fish trap

• obobo

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.bɔ/

bobo

1. alas (exclamation of sorrow, etc.)

Borrowed from Spanish bobo, from Latin balbus (“stammering”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbobo/ [ˈbo.bo]
• Hyphenation: bo‧bo

bóbo (feminine boba, Basahan spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

1. stupid; foolish

   Synonyms: patal, palpal, pangol, torpe

bóbo (feminine boba, Basahan spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

1. fool; idiot; simpleton; dunce

   Synonyms: tonto, tonta, kabakab

2. (uncommon) clown

   Synonyms: payaso, komiko

• IPA^(key): /ˈboː.boː/
• Hyphenation: bo‧bo

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo bobo, from Portuguese bobo or alternatively Spanish bobo.^[1]

bobo m (plural bobo's)

1. (Suriname) sucker, fool

   Synonyms: domkop, sufferd, sukkel

Shortening of bondsbons. Said to be coined by Joop Niezen in 1978. Popularised in 1988 by Ruud Gullit, whose usage was likely influenced by etymology 1.^[2]

bobo m (plural bobo's)

1. (Netherlands) football bigwig [from late 1970s or early 1980s]
   • 1983 November 10, M.H., "Bobo's", Nieuwsblad van het Noorden , vol. 96, no. 265, page 19.

     Drukke dagen voor bobo's in het Noorden.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (Netherlands, by extension) any bigwig [from late 1980s]

• IPA^(key): /bo.bo/

Onomatopoeic.

bobo m (plural bobos)

1. (childish) boo-boo (pain or injury)

Blend of bourgeois +‎ bohème.

bobo m or f by sense (plural bobos)

1. bobo, boho
   • 2016, Mathilde Ramadier, Alberto Madrigal, Berlin 2.0, Futuropolis, →ISBN, page 47:

     Et d'un point de vue sociologique, mieux vaut commander un simple café au lait pour préserver les berlinois des bobos et des hipsters.

     And from a sociological point of view, it is better to order a simple white coffee to protect Berliners from the bobos and the hipsters.

• “bobo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Compare Louisiana Creole bo.

bobo

1. (Saint-Domingue) to kiss

   Mo bobo ly là su bouche. ― I kiss her there on the mouth.

• Haitian Creole: bo

• S.J Ducoeurjoly, Manuel des habitans de Saint-Domingue, contenant un précis de l'histoire de cette île

bóbó or bôbô

1. to pour out or over

bóbo

1. baptism without ceremony

Possibly a clipping of nina bobo (“lullaby”)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbobo/ [ˈbo.bo]
• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: bo‧bo

bobo

1. (intransitive, childish) to sleep

   Synonyms: bobok (also childish), tidur

bobo (uncountable)

1. (childish) sleep

   Synonym: tidur

bobo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぼぼ

bobo

1. them

From bubu, from Proto-Austronesian *bubu.

bobo

1. fish trap

Borrowed from a West African language. Compare Krio bɔbɔ (“boy”), Adangme bɔbɔ (“little boy”) and Vai bɔbɔ (“little”).^[1]

bobo

1. boy, guy, young man
2. boyfriend
   • 2018, “Lekki Pastor sextape: "Delete your naked picture from your bobo phone before e too late"”, in BBC News Pidgin‎^[2]:

     "'Make pipo delete dia naked foto and videos from dia bobo or girlfriend phone before e dey too late' na wetin di girl wey her sex video wit one Lagos pastor leak online tell BBC News Pidgin."

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• → Yoruba: bọbọ

• bobă, babă

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *baba, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ, from nursery language.

• IPA^(key): /bɔˈbɔ/

bobo f

1. old woman
2. midwife

   Synonym: bopkă

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• Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “bobo”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 35
• Olesch, Reinhold (1962) “Boba, Bobo”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 65

From nursery language.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.bɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔbɔ
• Syllabification: bo‧bo

bobo n (indeclinable)

1. (endearing) baby, child

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dziecko

   małe bobo ― a small baby

   ryczące bobo ― a howling baby

   słodkie bobo ― a sweet baby

   zdrowe bobo ― a healthy baby

   bobo w wózku ― a baby in a carriage

• bobo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bobo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Spanish bobo, from Latin balbus.

• Rhymes: -obu
• Hyphenation: bo‧bo

bobo (feminine boba, masculine plural bobos, feminine plural bobas) (Brazil)

1. silly, stupid

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota

2. naive

   Synonyms: cândido, ingénuo/ingênuo

bobo m (plural bobos)

1. (historical) jester (person who amused a medieval court)

   Synonym: bobo da corte

2. (chiefly Brazil) a stupid or naive person; a fool

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota

• Principense: bóbo
• Sranan Tongo: bobo

Derived from Latin balbus (“stuttering”), influenced by sound symbolism.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbobo/ [ˈbo.β̞o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: bo‧bo

bobo (feminine boba, masculine plural bobos, feminine plural bobas)

1. stupid, silly, naive

   Synonym: tonto

bobo m (plural bobos, feminine boba, feminine plural bobas)

1. a stupid or naive person; a fool

   ¡No seas bobo! ― Don't be an idiot!

• Although in some contexts zonzo, bobo, tonto, menso, culero, tarado, idiota, imbécil, estúpido and pendejo may be synonyms, in most contexts they have a different degree of intensity, with zonzo having the mildest connotation, increasing in intensity in that rough order, to estúpido and pendejo, which have the most offensive meaning.

• ⇒ English: booby
• → Tagalog: bobo

• “bobo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Portuguese bobo.^[1] Cognate of Principense bóbo.

• IPA^(key): /bobo/, [bʊ̞bʊ̞], [bɔ̝bɔ̝]

bobo

1. dolt, dweeb, wimp

bobo

1. doltish, sluggish

bobo

1. to behave like a dolt

• bubo
• 8080 — leetspeak
• obob — back slang

Borrowed from Spanish bobo, from Latin balbus (“stammering”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbobo/ [ˈboː.bo]
• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: bo‧bo

bobo (feminine boba, Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

1. (offensive) fool; idiot; simpleton; dunce
2. (uncommon) clown; jester

   Synonyms: payaso, arlekin

bobo (feminine boba, Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

1. (offensive) stupid; foolish; silly

   Synonym: tanga

   • 2021, Nitz Miralles, “Lauren ‘pinatulan’ si DJ Loonyo”, in Pang-Masa:

     Aliw na aliw kami sa pagpatol ni Lauren Young sa fans ni DJ Loonyo na binash siya dahil sa comment sa pagsusuot ng face mask. Na-bash si Lauren sa tweet niyang “Omg i just saw this!! Ang bobo shet ang bobo. Flatearther ka rin ba koyah??”

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Compare Tobelo boboro (“nipa”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo.bo/

bobo (Jawi بوبو)

1. the nipa palm

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh