baboonery
English
Etymology
From Middle English babwynrie (“grotesque”). Equivalent to baboon + -ery.
Noun
baboonery (countable and uncountable, plural babooneries)
- Baboonish behavior.
- 1838, Edward Howard; Frederick Marryat, chapter XIX, in Rattlin, the Reefer:
- You smiled with satisfaction when you saw how great the improvement was that baboonery had made toward manhood.
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References
- baboonery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913