Baboonize
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 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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