Boobocracy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Rule by the ignorant and uneducated. uncountable

    "The revelations about the Ku Klux Klan have told us nothing, except that what Mr. Mencken calls the "booboisie" is obviously a docile imitator of the boobocracy."

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"The revelations about the Ku Klux Klan have told us nothing, except that what Mr. Mencken calls the "booboisie" is obviously a docile imitator of the boobocracy."

Etymology

From boob + -o- + -cracy; apparently coined in imitation of booboisie.

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