baboonesses

Noun

babooness (plural baboonesses)

1. (uncommon) 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

   Synonyms:

   babuina