Booby (Not as rude as it sounds?)

[Firiffic]

Can someone please tell my mother and I what the origins of "booby trap" and "booby prize" are and if they have the same origins?

[jno]

Up late Firiffic? A booby is someone silly or childish - comes from a Latin word for stammering - so a booby trap would catch someone who wasn't looking where he was going; a booby prize would go, I suppose, not really to the stupidest person around but the unluckiest.

[Clanad]

From On-line Etymology:  1599, from Sp. bobo "stupid person, slow bird," probably from L. balbus "stammering" (as jno states) (like barbarian, from an imitative root, cf. Czech blblati "to stammer," Skt. balbala-karoti "he stammers"). Booby prize is 1889, an object of little value given to the loser of a game; booby-trap is 1850, originally a schoolboy prank; the more lethal sense developed during World War I.