boobocracy

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

boob +‎ -o- +‎ -cracy; apparently coined in imitation of booboisie

NounEdit

boobocracy (uncountable)

1. Rule by the ignorant and uneducated.
   • 1921 October 19, “What's All the Shootin' For?”, in The Freeman, volume 4‎, number 84, ISSN 1559-1638, page 125:

     The revelations about the Ku Klux Klan have told us nothing, except that what Mr. Mencken calls the "booboisie" is obviously a docile imitator of the boobocracy.

   • 1947, Hackett, Francis, On Judging Books: In General and in Particular^[1], J. Day Co., LCCN 47030351, OL 6522306M, page 11:

     And, if a boobocracy, why not play on it for profit? What else is it for?

   • 1978, Yoseloff, Thomas, “The Tone of the Twenties”, in Rosa, Alfred F., editor, The Old Century and the New: Essays in Honor of Charles Angoff, Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, ISBN 9780838619544, OL 8223111M, page 73:

     Henry L. Mencken could come up from Baltimore to spread terror among the boobocracy, and vanquish weekly the ministers, college professors, and chambers of commerce.

   • 1984, West, Anthony, H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life^[2], London: Hutchinson, ISBN 9780091345402, OL 14253035M, page 126:

     But in spite of the antics of its Bible thumpers and its boobocracy, my father was unable to stay mad at the United States for long.

ReferencesEdit

• The Word Lover's Dictionary by Josefa Heifetz (ISBN 0806517204)