baboonery

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

noun, plural ba·boon·er·ies.

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

Origin of baboonery

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

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Historical Examples of baboonery

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