Definition of Baboonery

1. n. Baboonish behavior.

Definition of Baboonery

1. Noun. Baboonish behavior. (qualifier Marryat). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Baboonery

1. [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Baboonery

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

Literary usage of Baboonery

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

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"Then he laid hold of Now, although the old law-suit between Squire Bull and the proprietors of the baboonery had long ago been settled, ..."

2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1890)
"It was called the “Republic of baboonery.” An anonymous memoir, written in the seventeenth century, and first printed in 1840, furnishes the following ..."

3. Curiosities of Literature: And the Literary Character Illustrated by Isaac Disraeli, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1846)
"... The Republic of baboonery.' The society was a burlesque model of their own ... that he considered himself 'as much King of baboonery, as King of Poland. ..."

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