Boobyism

Quick meaning: Boobyism is a noun meaning The quality of being a booby, foolishness.

Meaning

The quality of being a booby, foolishness.

Example Sentences

Samuel gazed upwards at the handsome long nose and rich lips of his elder cousin, so experienced, so agreeable, so renowned, so esteemed, so philosophic, and admitted to himself that he had lived to the age of forty in a state of comparative boobyism.

Such are the written placards wafered up in the gentlemen’s dressing-room, or the green-room (where there is any), at a private theatre; and such are the sums extracted from the shop-till, or overcharged in the office expenditure, by the donkeys who are prevailed upon to pay for permission to exhibit their lamentable ignorance and boobyism on the stage of a private theatre.

Word Forms

• boobyisms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include boominess, goofishness, bogosity, boorishness, yobbishness, foolishness.

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