baboonery

[ ba-boo-nuh-ree or, especially British, buh- ]

noun,plural ba·boon·er·ies.
  1. an uncouth, ridiculous, or brutish condition, attitude, or action.

Origin of baboonery

1
1375–1425; late Middle English babwynrie, equivalent to bab(e)wynbaboon + -rie-ery

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