Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A class of people regarded as stupid and gullible.
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- noun A social
class made up of ignorant and uncultured people.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun class consisting of all those who are considered boobs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And dont forget the fall elections nothing buoys public approval ratings, distracts the booboisie from a moribund economy, and puts steam in my slacks like a little carpet-bombing.
Boing Boing: October 6, 2002 - October 12, 2002 Archives 2002
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Only the terminally disinterested, which is to say a vast swath of the "booboisie", march lock step to the mainstream medias pied pipers.
Walter Cronkite: ‘We Are Mired in Stalemate,’ 1968 « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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(Wood had read H.L. Mencken's debunking of the American "booboisie" and, for a time, agreed with it.)
American Idol 2007
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The "booboisie," as Mencken often called them, have always been with us.
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Notes On Democracy, and its caustic account of allowing America's "booboisie" total reign:
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED disinter 2010
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His biting commentary on politics, religion and the "booboisie" made him one of the nation's greatest social critics.
Blog updates 2009
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It definitely does not work if local school boards consist of booboisie imbeciles intellectually unfit to make decisions about how to teach and what to teach.
Dan Agin: 'Missing Links': A Book About Us Dan Agin 2011
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It definitely does not work if local school boards consist of booboisie imbeciles intellectually unfit to make decisions about how to teach and what to teach.
Dan Agin: 'Missing Links': A Book About Us Dan Agin 2011
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He is typical of the non-thinking booboisie that is the white-wing these days.
thigpensrevenge commented on the word booboisie
h.l. mencken
January 7, 2007
palooka commented on the word booboisie
booboisie: what every politician seeks. Per the American Heritage dictionary: "A class of people regarded as stupid and gullible"
January 28, 2007
oroboros commented on the word booboisie
Great portmanteau!
August 15, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word booboisie
Like everyone on wordie.org, according to this pompous old git.
See also git, and most of the entries on this list.
September 9, 2008