babooness
babooness noun: a female baboon.
Noun
babooness (plural baboonesses)
- A female baboon.
- The aunt is a skinny old hag, with sharp eyes, a great deal of frizzy grey hair, that looks like a tangled mass of tow on a distaff, a turned-up nose, with large nostrils, and two rows of very perfect grinning teeth, like a monkey’s. Indeed, she principally resembles a middle-aged babooness; she is...1854 January, “St. Januarius’ to St. Constantius”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XXXV, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 139
- ‘Fred.’ need n’t send us any monkeys: we are afraid of them. A babooness fell in love with us once, at Barnum’s Museum: in fact, she became so much attached to us, that it was as much as we could do to get away from the affectionate ‘creetur!’1859 March, “Editor’s Table”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume LIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: John A. Gray, […], page 328
- Synonyms:
- babuina
Examples of babooness in a sentence
- Indeed, she principally resembles a middle-aged babooness; she is active, strong, and upright in her figure, about fifty years old.1854 January, “St. Januarius’ to St. Constantius”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XXXV, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 139:
- She is not your wife, she is not even a woman; she was not in her conception divine, she is purely animal; she is the babooness of the land of Nod, she is the female of Cain: slay her!1873, Alexandre Dumas fils, “Advice to a Son; Love, Marriage, etc.”, in George Vandenhoff, transl., Man-Woman; or, The Temple, the Hearth...
- Alas for the days when my baboon ancestral / In Japanese woods from the lithe limb was pendant, / Instructing, kind hearted, each babooness vestal / How best to achieve for herself a descendant.1882 March 3, “The Devil’s Dictionary”, in The Wasp, volume VIII, number 292, San Francisco, Calif., page 134, column 3:
- Adam was the baboons^([sic]) and Eve was the babooness, and God commanded them not to eat of the fruit of one particular tree—probably a cocoanut tree—but the serpent tempted them and they did eat.1909 January 2, Ricardo, “Vagaries of Pseudo Scientists”, in The Intermountain Catholic, volume 10, number 12, Salt Lake City, Ut.; Denver...
Synonyms of babooness
Forms of babooness
| plural | baboonesses |
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Origin of babooness
From baboon + -ess.
Questions about babooness
- What does babooness mean?
- Babooness means a female baboon.
- How do you use babooness in a sentence?
- Indeed, she principally resembles a middle-aged babooness; she is active, strong, and upright in her figure, about fifty years old.
- What part of speech is babooness?
- Babooness is a noun.
- What is the plural of babooness?
- The plural of babooness is baboonesses.
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