booboisie
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of booboisie
Blend of boob 1 and bourgeoisie; coined by H.L. Mencken in 1922
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Mencken had the American masses down as the "booboisie," hopelessly straight and dull and dumb.
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On his overheated typewriter he minted words and phrases that became part of the national currency: "booboisie," "bozart," "Comstockery," "Bible Belt."
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Mencken, the iconoclastic journalist who delighted in debunking the "booboisie," is being debunked himself.
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True members of the American booboisie, they heckle Dr. Lao and his magician during the performance and walk silently out into the hard Arizona sunlight when it is over.
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H. L. Mencken coined expressions like "Bible Belt," "booboisie," "Yahwah," which became part of the language of his imitative admirers but not slang.
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