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A baboon

Alternative forms [ edit ]

[1] Variant spellings ( 14 th century ) : babewyne baboyne

( 15 th century ) : babewen babewin babewyn babwen babwyn baubyn

( 16 th century ) : baboon baboone babound baboune baboyn babwyne

( 17 th century ) : baboon baboone baboune

( 18 th century–present ) : baboon



Etymology [ edit ]

From Middle English babewin, baboin, from Old French babouin, from baboue (“grimace; muzzle”), of Proto-Germanic origin, related to dialectal German Bäppe (“lips; muzzle”), Middle High German beffen (“to bark”), Middle English baffen (“to bark”). See also baff, baffle.

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baboon (plural baboons)

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. 1971 : Philip José Farmer, Down in the Black Gang: and others; a story collection , page 79 (Nelson Doubleday) 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.

: Philip José Farmer, , page 79 (Nelson Doubleday) 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist ‎[1], volume 100, number 2, page 162: March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in, volume 100, number 2, page 162: He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. ( colloquial , derogatory ) A foolish or boorish person.

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The collective noun for baboons is troop.

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