booboisie
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of booboisie
Blend of boob 1 and bourgeoisie; coined by H.L. Mencken in 1922
Example Sentences
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H. L. Mencken placed them squarely among the booboisie for their garrulous camaraderie and fetish for nicknames.
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Mencken lashed out at the "booboisie" with a bull whip; the debonair Nathan was content to use a swizzle stick.
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Perhaps it was Bishop Cannon, whose brain Publisher William Randolph Hearst has called "the best in America," who was responsible for Mencken's diminishing fire on the religious booboisie.
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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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Puritanism, the genteel tradition in fiction, Prohibition and even that "Bible of the booboisie and boost-erism"�the Saturday Evening Post �all became his targets.
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