Word: Baboonery
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late Middle English; earliest use found in Aelred of Rievaulx's De Institutione Inclusarum. From baboon + -ery
Definition:
Grotesque or absurd ornamentation, carving or pictures; an example of this. Compare "baboon", babery historical after Middle English.
Definition:
Originally: †a colony of baboons (obsolete rare). In later use: a captive collection of baboons.
Definition:
Baboonish nature, character, or behaviour; especially foolishness, stupidity.
