Definition of Babooneries

1. baboonery [n] - See also: baboonery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Babooneries

babirusas
babirussa
babirussas
babish
babishly
babishness
babka
babkas
babkinite
bablah
bablahs
baboo
babool
babools
baboon
babooneries (current term)
baboonery
baboonish
baboonlike
baboons
baboos
baboosh
babooshes
babooshka
babooshkas
babouche
babouches
baboushka
baboushkas

Literary usage of Babooneries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages: A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison (1908)
"... with three buttresses and three bosses of mother of pearl . . . and an ewer, . . . partly enamelled with divers babooneries " — a delightful expression! ..."

2. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1824)
"It behoves, however, those who seriously desire the political amelioration of their sect publicly to shake off all participation in such babooneries—it they ..."

3. The Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South by Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1852)
"... ascribed to Justin, and in the pages of the earlier apologists; whilst the solemn babooneries and elaborate pedantries of Herbert of Cherbury, ..."

4. The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick, of Slickville. To by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1839)
"... and putting the parts together, with a great many flourishes, and a lot of babooneries, wellin' the threaded ends in his mouth, and forcin' them loge- ..."

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