baboonery
/bəˈbuːn(ə)ri/noun
1Grotesque or absurd ornamentation, carving or pictures; an example of this. Compare baboon babery historical after Middle English.
2Originally: †a colony of baboons (obsolete rare ). In later use: a captive collection of baboons.
3Baboonish nature, character, or behaviour; especially foolishness, stupidity.
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Aelred of Rievaulx's De Institutione Inclusarum. From baboon + -ery.
- put someone through the wringer (or the mangle)
- put someone to
- put someone to bed
- put someone to death
- put someone to shame
- put someone to sleep
- put someone under
- put someone up
- put someone up to
- put something about
- put something across
- put something aside
- put something away
- put something back
- put something behind one
- put something by
- put something down
- put something down to
- put something forward
- put something in/into
- put something into operation
- put something into someone's head
- put something into words
- put something off
- put something on