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Baboonish

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ba·boon  (b-bn)
n.
1. Any of several large terrestrial African and Asian monkeys of the family Cercopithecidae, especially of the genus Papio or Chaeropithecus and related genera, characterized by an elongated, doglike muzzle, a short tail, and bare calluses on the buttocks.
2. Slang A brutish person; a boor.
[Middle English babewin, from Old French babuin, gaping figure, gargoyle, baboon, perhaps blend of Old French babine, muzzle, and babau, grimace.]
ba·booner·y n.
ba·boonish adj.
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Adj.1.baboonish - resembling a baboon


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