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baboonize en · VERB

Etymology

From baboon + -ize.

Meanings

1. To become, make, or treat like a baboon.
   • 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. 1834, The Toilette of Health, Beauty, and Fashion, page 19:
   • They became "baboonized," as it were, joining ranks and traveling together in disciplined troops. 1969, John E. Pfeiffer, The emergence of man, page 281:
   • Their success was boosted by public figures who took note of the way she complimented friends and baboonized enemies. 1996, Mid-Atlantic Country - Volume 17, Issues 1-5, page 82:
   • Some of these models continue to emphasize the importance of hunting, others "baboonize" hominid origins by positing a baboon-like adaptation. 1999, Milford H. Wolpoff, Paleoanthropology, page 224:

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