booboisie

[boo-bwah-zee]

noun

1. a segment of the general public composed of uneducated, uncultured persons.

Word History and Origins

Origin of booboisie¹

Blend of boob ¹ and bourgeoisie; coined by H.L. Mencken in 1922

Example Sentences

Mencken labeled “the booboisie”? The triumph of “Babbitt” is that we can’t confidently answer that question.

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That comment reveals Jack undergoing the opposite of a polishing: He is tarnishing, or delaminating, reverting to his natural lowbrow state and cheerleading for the reactionary booboisie.

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Mencken’s booboisie, but to a much higher power of ignorance than even Mencken himself, no slouch when it came to contempt for the common people, could have imagined.

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But he was never accepted by the "booboisie."

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If he said this he really flattered the "booboisie."

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