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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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