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baboonery

baboonery noun: baboonish behavior.

Noun

baboonery (countable and uncountable, plural babooneries)

  1. Baboonish 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

Forms of baboonery

pluralbabooneries

Origin of baboonery

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

Questions about baboonery

What does baboonery mean?
Baboonery means baboonish behavior.
What part of speech is baboonery?
Baboonery is a noun.
What is the plural of baboonery?
The plural of baboonery is babooneries.

Words near baboonery in the dictionary

  1. baboon spiders
  2. baboon syndrome
  3. baboon-monkey
  4. baboon-monkeys
  5. babooneries
  6. baboonery
  7. babooness
  8. baboonesses
  9. babooning
  10. baboonish
  11. baboonize

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