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baboonery

[ ba-boo-nuh-ree or, esp. British, buh- ]

/ bæˈbu nə ri or, esp. British, bə- /

noun, plural ba·boon·er·ies.

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

Words nearby baboonery

babism, babka, babo's law, baboo, baboon, baboonery, babracot, babruysk, babs, babson, babu

Origin of baboonery

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

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for baboonery

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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