baboonery


ba·boon

B0004500 (bă-bo͞on′)n.1. Any of several large terrestrial African and Arabian monkeys of the genus Papio, having an elongated doglike muzzle and bare calluses on the buttocks.2. Slang A brutish person; a boor.
[Middle English babewin, from Old French babuin, gaping figure, gargoyle, baboon, perhaps blend of Old French babine, muzzle, and babau, grimace.]
ba·boon′er·y n.ba·boon′ish adj.

baboonery

(bəˈbuːnərɪ) npl -ries1. uncouth or brutish behaviour2. a collection of baboons