baboonery
Americannoun
plural
babooneriesEtymology
Origin of baboonery
1375–1425; late Middle English babwynrie, equivalent to bab ( e ) wyn baboon + -rie -ery
Example Sentences
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Last week the Southwest Foundation's baboonery, on the rolling, Kenya-like plains eight miles west of downtown San Antonio, resounded to the barks and squeals of the baboon colonies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill, old foe of "the foul baboonery of Bolshevism," reportedly did not hit it off too well at their meeting last year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Abbot of Unreason, 262; description of a grand Christmas held at the Inns of Courts, 263-265, and note; the last memorable, of the Lords of Misrule of the Inns of Court, 266; anecdote of a Lord of Misrule, 267; the Mayor of Garratt, 269; regiment de la Calotte, ib., and note, 270; Republic of Baboonery, ib.; medals used for money in, iii.
From Project Gutenberg
This was a pleasant and useful project to reform the manners of the Polish youth; and one of the Polish kings good-humourdly observed, that he considered himself "as much King of Baboonery as King of Poland."
From Project Gutenberg
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