baboonery
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English babwynrie (“grotesque”). Equivalent to baboon + -ery.
Noun edit
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.
References edit
- “baboonery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.