baboonery

[ ba-boo-nuh-ree or, especially British, buh- ]

/ bæˈbu nə ri or, especially British, bə- /

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noun, plural ba·boon·er·ies.

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

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Origin of baboonery

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

Words nearby baboonery

Babi Yar, Babi Yar Symphony, babka, baboo, baboon, baboonery, Babo's law, babracot, Babruysk, Babs, Babson

How to use baboonery in a sentence

But young Nap, now styled Administrator of the Baboonery, was before him.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 423, January 1851|Various
You smiled with satisfaction when you saw how great the improvement was that baboonery had made toward manhood.
Rattlin the Reefer|Edward Howard