Baboonize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To become, make, or treat like a baboon.

    "but we declaim against the introduction of foreign locks, curls, and fripperies, which serve to baboonize and obscure, rather than to ornament and illustrate the face of man, however whimsical or parsimonious nature may have been in the moulding of it."

Example

More examples

"but we declaim against the introduction of foreign locks, curls, and fripperies, which serve to baboonize and obscure, rather than to ornament and illustrate the face of man, however whimsical or parsimonious nature may have been in the moulding of it."

Etymology

From baboon + -ize.

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