baboon
nounEtymology
From Middle English babewin, baboin, from Old French babouin, from baboue (“grimace; muzzle”), of West Germanic origin, related to dialectal German Bäppe (“lips; muzzle”), Middle High German beffen (“to bark”), Middle English baffen (“to bark”). See also baff, baffle.
Definitions
An Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth,…
An Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks.
- Mix swallowed the comment he wanted to make, that the council hall stank like a congress of baboons. But he was in no position to insult his host, nor should he. The man was only expressing the attitude of his time.
- He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
A foolish, stupid or incompetent person.
The neighborhood
Derived
antibaboon, Anubis baboon, Arabian baboon, baboonery, babooness, babooning, baboonish, baboonize, baboonlike, baboon-monkey, baboon spider, baboon syndrome, Cape baboon, chacma baboon, dog-faced baboon, gelada baboon, Guinea baboon, hamadryas baboon, huboon, Kinda baboon, lion-tailed baboon, olive baboon, orange baboon tarantula, sacred baboon, sheboon, sphinx baboon, ursine baboon, western baboon, wood baboon, yellow baboon
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA