baboonery

Baboonish behavior.

Noun

  1. Baboonish behavior.
    • You smiled with satisfaction when you saw how great the improvement was that baboonery had made toward manhood. - 1838, Edward Howard, Frederick Marryat, chapter XIX, in Rattlin, the Reefer

Origin

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

Forms

babooneries