boobocracy
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
boob + -o- + -cracy; apparently coined in imitation of booboisie
NounEdit
boobocracy (uncountable)
- Rule by the ignorant and uneducated.
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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.
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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, 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.
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ReferencesEdit
- The Word Lover's Dictionary by Josefa Heifetz →ISBN