baboonery

[ ba-boo-nuh-reeor, especially British, buh- ]

noun

, plural ba·boon·er·ies.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of baboonery¹

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

Example Sentences

Last week the Southwest Foundation's baboonery, on the rolling, Kenya-like plains eight miles west of downtown San Antonio, resounded to the barks and squeals of the baboon colonies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill, old foe of "the foul baboonery of Bolshevism," reportedly did not hit it off too well at their meeting last year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Abbot of Unreason, 262; description of a grand Christmas held at the Inns of Courts, 263-265, and note; the last memorable, of the Lords of Misrule of the Inns of Court, 266; anecdote of a Lord of Misrule, 267; the Mayor of Garratt, 269; regiment de la Calotte, ib., and note, 270; Republic of Baboonery, ib.; medals used for money in, iii.

From Project Gutenberg

You smiled with satisfaction when you saw how great the improvement was that baboonery had made toward manhood.

From Project Gutenberg

It was called "The Republic of Baboonery."

From Project Gutenberg