baboonery

noun

ba·​boon·​ery

plural -es

: conduct, activity, or attitudes that are brutish, degrading, or grotesquely humorous

never … in the history of architecture has taste … descended to similar baboonery

—Architect & Building News

Word History

Etymology

Middle English babwinrie, from babewin + -rie -ry

First Known Use

1731, in the meaning defined above

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