baboonery

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noun

Baboonish behavior.

OriginMiddle English babwynrie →
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Meanings

nounbaboonery (countable and uncountable, plural babooneries)

plural babooneries

  1. countableuncountableBaboonish behavior.

    You smiled with satisfaction when you saw how great the improvement was that baboonery had made toward manhood.

    1838, Edward Howard, Frederick Marryat, chapter XIX, in Rattlin, the Reefer

Origin

  1. Middle Englishbabwynrie“grotesque”
  2. Englishbaboonery

From Middle English babwynrie (“grotesque”). Equivalent to baboon + -ery.

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APA

baboonery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baboonery

MLA

“baboonery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baboonery. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “baboonery,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baboonery.

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