baboonize

English

Etymology

baboon +‎ -ize

Verb

baboonize (third-person singular simple present baboonizes, present participle baboonizing, simple past and past participle baboonized)

1. To become, make, or treat like a baboon.
   • 1834, The Toilette of Health, Beauty, and Fashion, page 19:

     but we declaim against the introduction of foreign locks, curls, and fripperies, which serve to baboonize and obscure, rather than to ornament and illustrate the face of man, however whimsical or parsimonious nature may have been in the moulding of it.

   • 1969, John E. Pfeiffer, The emergence of man, page 281:

     They became "baboonized," as it were, joining ranks and traveling together in disciplined troops.

   • 1996, Mid-Atlantic Country - Volume 17, Issues 1-5, page 82:

     Their success was boosted by public figures who took note of the way she complimented friends and baboonized enemies.

   • 1999, Milford H. Wolpoff, Paleoanthropology, page 224:

     Some of these models continue to emphasize the importance of hunting, others "baboonize" hominid origins by positing a baboon-like adaptation.