booboisie
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of booboisie
Blend of boob 1 and bourgeoisie; coined by H.L. Mencken in 1922
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No pedant, he praised Walter Winchell for adding phffft to the language, and H. L. Mencken for contributing booboisie.
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Critic Henry L. Mencken slashed at U.S. smugness and provincialism and fixed the arbiters of its life and bad taste in a cruel epithet: the booboisie.
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But in larger matters he was more naive than the booboisie.
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Had he been born a contemporary of Mencken's, Wolfe would have railed at the booboisie.
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On his overheated typewriter he minted words and phrases that became part of the national currency: "booboisie," "bozart," "Comstockery," "Bible Belt."
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