baboonery

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

noun,plural ba·boon·er·ies.

an uncouth, ridiculous, or brutish condition, attitude, or action.

Origin of baboonery

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

Words Nearby baboonery

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How to use baboonery in a sentence

But young Nap, now styled Administrator of the baboonery, was before him.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 423, January 1851 | Various
You smiled with satisfaction when you saw how great the improvement was that baboonery had made toward manhood.
Rattlin the Reefer | Edward Howard

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