α. Middle English babounrye, Middle English babwynrie.
β. 1600s baboonerie, 1700s– baboonery.
单词 | baboonery |
释义 | babooneryn.α. Middle English babounrye, Middle English babwynrie. β. 1600s baboonerie, 1700s– baboonery. 1. Grotesque or absurd ornamentation, carving or pictures; an example of this. Cf. baboon n. 1, babery n. historical after Middle English. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.c1400 |
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