Babooness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A female baboon. uncommon
"The aunt is a skinny old hag, with sharp eyes, a great deal of frizzy grey hair, that looks like a tangled mass of tow on a distaff, a turned-up nose, with large nostrils, and two rows of very perfect grinning teeth, like a monkey’s. Indeed, she principally resembles a middle-aged babooness; she is active, strong, and upright in her figure, about fifty years old."
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More examples"The aunt is a skinny old hag, with sharp eyes, a great deal of frizzy grey hair, that looks like a tangled mass of tow on a distaff, a turned-up nose, with large nostrils, and two rows of very perfect grinning teeth, like a monkey’s. Indeed, she principally resembles a middle-aged babooness; she is active, strong, and upright in her figure, about fifty years old."
Etymology
From baboon + -ess.
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