baboonery

English

Etymology

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

Noun

baboonery (countable and uncountable, plural babooneries)

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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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