baboonery

noun

noun

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

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:

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