Baboonery
an uncouth, ridiculous, or brutish condition, attitude, or action.
Historical Examples
You smiled with satisfaction when you saw how great the improvement was that baboonery had made toward manhood.
Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard
But young Nap, now styled Administrator of the baboonery, was before him.
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 423, January 1851 Various
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