bobo

• IPA^(key): /ˈboʊboʊ/

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.
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) A boo-boo (minor injury)

• Bobo doll

• boob

bobo

1. alas (exclamation of sorrow, etc.)

• IPA^(key): /bo.bo/

Onomatopoeic.

bobo m (plural bobos)

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

Blend of bourgeois +‎ bohème.

bobo m or f (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.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• “bobo” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

bóbó or bôbô

1. pour out or over

bóbo

1. baptism without ceremony

Borrowed from Spanish bobo, from Latin balbus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo.bu/
  • (Portugal) IPA^(key): [ˈbo.βu]
  • (Brazil) IPA^(key): [ˈbo.bu]
• Hyphenation: bo‧bo

bobo m (feminine singular boba, masculine plural bobos, feminine plural bobas, comparable)

1. (Brazil) silly, stupid
2. (Brazil) naive

• (stupid): See here

bobo m (plural bobos)

1. (historical) jester (person who amused a medieval court)
2. (chiefly Brazil) a stupid or naive person; a fool.

• (jester): bobo da corte
• (fool): See here

• bobagem
• bobo da corte

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbobo/, [ˈboβo]

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

1. stupid, silly, naïve

   Synonym: tonto

bobo m (plural bobos)

1. A stupid or naive person; a fool.

   ¡No seas bobo!

   Don't be an idiot!

• “bobo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbobo/

bobo

1. (vulgar, informal, derogatory) an idiot

bobo

1. stupid; idiotic

• consuelo de bobo
• nakakabobo