baboonize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "but we declaim against the introduction of foreign locks, curls, and fripperies, which serve to baboonize and obscure, rather than to ornament and illustrate the face of man, however whimsical or parsimonious nature may have been in the moulding of it."
- "They became "baboonized," as it were, joining ranks and traveling together in disciplined troops."
- "Their success was boosted by public figures who took note of the way she complimented friends and baboonized enemies."
- "Some of these models continue to emphasize the importance of hunting, others "baboonize" hominid origins by positing a baboon-like adaptation."
Etymology
From baboon + -ize.