Lexicographical Neighbors of Boobyism
Literary usage of Boobyism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1847)
"Why, then, are not all boys called Bolsi We beg pardon for having given so much
space to this incoherent and contradictory boobyism. We presume that Mr. Tal ..."
2. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1917)
"... to see whether the pre-war threads would be upheld by bits of wonderful work,
or obscured, if not destroyed, by English indifference and boobyism. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"... and Jack Bannister, and Monsieur Alexandre, dressed up as dowagers in—The
Queen's business, the most generous and striking display of—English boobyism, ..."
4. The Yale Literary Magazine by Yale University, Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg (1850)
"... their characters ;" " ordered," instead of " put in order ;" the boobyism of
using " vanity," as synonymous with " pride ;" " circumspect fortifications ..."
5. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare, Evangeline Maria O'Connor (1901)
"In his consequential verdancy, his aristocratic official boobyism, and his
lean-witted, lack-brain originality, ..."
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