baboonery

English

Etymology

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

Noun

baboonery (countable and uncountable, plural babooneries)

1. Baboonish behavior.
   • 1838, Edward Howard, Frederick Marryat, chapter XIX, in Rattlin, the Reefer:

     You smiled with satisfaction when you saw how great the improvement was that baboonery had made toward manhood.

References

• “baboonery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.