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A baboon is a large, strong monkey with a long dog-like face, a short tail, and often a bare, colourful patch of skin on its bottom. They live in groups, walk on all fours, have big teeth, and can be fierce if they feel trapped or if people feed them. English speakers mean the African animals (and a little into Arabia). Course books sometimes add South Asia; though actually, the monkeys people meet in South Asia are usually macaques, not baboons. A baboon is a monkey, not an ape: apes such as gorillas have no tail. The English word came from Middle English babewin / baboin, from Old French babouin, from baboue, a grimace or a muzzle — a face that looked, to people then, like a twist of the mouth. French passed the word on to other European languages. Informal talk sometimes uses baboon as a rude name for a person, meaning rough or ugly in manner; that is a stretch from the animal, and it is .
組成From Middle English babewin / baboin, from Old French babouin, from baboue ‘a grimace; a muzzle’. Thought to copy a sound or a lip movement, not to hide a smaller English word inside.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
baboonnoun/bəˈbuːn/
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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.
- 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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derogatoryA foolish, stupid or incompetent person.
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offensivederogatoryslurA foolish, stupid or incompetent person.
- The 50-year-old steel worker said he had meant to type Sawyers should win the "buffoon d'Or". He claimed a misspelling, of "bafoon", had autocorrected on his device to "baboon".
- Animalistic dehumanisation, 'simianisation' and the animalising of black bodies through metaphorically likening these individuals to 'baboons,' 'monkeys' or 'apes' reveals racialised animality discourse in South Africa.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。