baboonish
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ba·boon
(bă-bo͞on′)n.
1. Any of several large terrestrial African and Arabian monkeys of the genus Papio, having an elongated doglike muzzle 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·boon′er·y n.
ba·boon′ish adj.
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baboonish
(bəˈbuːnɪʃ)adj
1. resembling a baboon
2. uncouth, brutish
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