Baboon

Definitions

1. 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.
2. A foolish or boorish person.
   colloquial, derogatory

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record⟳.”

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