jackassery

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noun

The foolish or obnoxious behaviour of a jackass.

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Meanings

nounjackassery (usually uncountable, plural jackasseries)

plural jackasseries

  1. uncountableusuallyThe foolish or obnoxious behaviour of a jackass.

    2022, Sen. Ben Sasse, during Ketanji Brown Jackson's SCOTUS confirmation hearings We should recognize that the jackassery we often see around here is partly because of people mugging for short-term camera opportunities.

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    […] the hypothesis that Karnow had made a new will deserved a little exploration. To ask any of you about it would of course have been jackassery.

    1955, Rex Stout, "When a Man Murders...", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, page 134

Origin

From jackass + -ery.

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