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单词 baboonery
释义

babooneryn.

Brit. /bəˈbuːn(ə)ri/, U.S. /bæˈbunəri/
Forms:

α. Middle English babounrye, Middle English babwynrie.

β. 1600s baboonerie, 1700s– baboonery.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: baboon n., -ery suffix.
Etymology: < baboon n. + -ery suffix. In sense 1 perhaps after Anglo-Norman bobunrie grotesque figure (a1376); compare Middle French, French babouinerie silly prank (a1442), baboonish nature or behaviour, esp. foolishness, stupidity (1611 in Cotgrave as †babouïnnerie ). Compare slightly later babery n.With the α. forms compare -ry suffix.
1. Grotesque or absurd ornamentation, carving or pictures; an example of this. Cf. baboon n. 1, babery n. historical after Middle English.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > [noun] > specific style > work in specific style
babooneryc1400
babery?c1450
fretizing1626
Japan17..
rococo1843
Japanesery1885
c1400 tr. Aelred of Rievaulx De Institutione Inclusarum (Vernon) (1984) 33 (MED) I nel not..þat..þu delite þe in veyne peyntyngges..noþer in cloþys..steyned wit bryddes or bestes or diuerse trees or floures or oþer babounrye.
?c1430 (c1383) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 8 Ȝif þei drawen þe peple..by coryouste of gaye wyndownes..peyntyngis and babwynrie.
1956 N. Pevsner Englishness of Eng. Art 26 The margins are covered with birds and beasts and little scenes from everyday life and grotesque caricatures of such scenes. These things were called babwyneries, that is babooneries or monkey-business.
1973 Art Bull. 55 292/2 These [sc. sculptured brackets on church stalls] bore the ornamental reliefs usual for the categories concerned: foliage, masks, animals, ‘babooneries’, [etc.].
1996 M. Camille Master of Death i. 26 Increasingly, students wanted to own their own books, filled with marginal ‘baboonery’.
2. Originally: †a colony of baboons (cf. rookery n. I.) (obsolete. rare). In later use: a captive collection of baboons.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Papio (baboon) > collectively
baboonery1613
1613 G. Chapman Memorable Maske Inns of Court sig. a1v A vast, wither'd, and hollow Tree, being the bare receptacle of the Baboonerie.
1968 Nonhuman Primates 18 The baboonery at the Southwest Foundation for Research and Education, San Antonio, Texas.
2004 C. Brightman Total Insecurity ii. 40 I..had begun to look into the possibility..of working with a Yale anthropologist as an unqualified assistant at a baboonery in Kenya.
3. Baboonish nature, character, or behaviour; esp. foolishness, stupidity.In quot. 1731: nonsense.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour
villainyc1340
churlhood1382
rudenessc1405
boistousness1526
uplandishness1530
rusticity1531
coarseness1541
loutishnessa1556
grossness1563
boorishness1570
rusticality1572
clownishness1576
bouerie1577
roughness1581
clownery1589
swinishness1591
peasantryc1592
inurbanity1598
community1600
rusticalnessa1603
clownagea1637
wildness1639
vulgarness1642
unpolishedness1652
brutism1687
mismanners1697
unpoliteness1700
brutality1709
mechanicism1710
indelicacy1712
untameness1727
vulgarism1749
vulgaritya1774
shag1785
piggishness1796
cubbishness1828
sylvanity1832
rusticness1838
plebeianness1840
swainishness1854
baboonery1857
yahooism1862
slanginess1865
bucolicism1879
vulgarianism1920
outbackery1961
yobbishness1969
ockerism1974
blokeishness1989
1731 ‘A. Scriblerus’ Gorgoneicon p. xii It is very plain that there is a great League struck up between thee and Messieurs Barbeyrac, Moliere, and Rabelais, to supply thee with Baboonery to grin and chatter us out of our Religion.
1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer I. xix. 200 The improvement..that baboonery had made toward manhood.
1857 National Mag. 2 168 Oranges which he demolished in a style of the most perfect baboonery.
1922 F. O'Brien Atolls of Sun xx. 419 Amiable gaiety and ludicrous baboonery passed the afternoon.
1958 Afr. Affairs 57 152 The pure baboonery of the Fascist policy of racial discrimination.
2006 M. Shore Caviar & Ashes vi. 182 A bitterly sarcastic poem about the vagaries of History, now conceived as a capricious woman, amused by baboonery, smiling half jeeringly.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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