Meanings
- uncountableRule by the ignorant and uneducated.
And, if a boobocracy, why not play on it for profit? What else is it for?
1947, Francis Hackett, On Judging Books: In General and in Particular, J. Day Co., →LCCN, →OL, page 113 more examples
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.
1921 October 19, “What's All the Shootin' For?”, in The Freeman, volume 4, number 84, →ISSN, page 125Henry L. Mencken could come up from Baltimore to spread terror among the boobocracy, and vanquish weekly the ministers, college professors, and chambers of commerce.
1978, Thomas Yoseloff, “The Tone of the Twenties”, in Alfred F. Rosa, editor, The Old Century and the New: Essays in Honor of Charles Angoff, Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 73But 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.
1984, Anthony West, H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, →OL, page 126
Origin
From boob + -o- + -cracy; apparently coined in imitation of booboisie.
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