bashi-bazoukery

See also: Bashi-Bazoukery

English

Alternative forms

• Bashi-Bazoukery

Etymology

From bashi-bazouk +‎ -ery.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /baʃɪbəˈzuːkəɹɪ/

Noun

bashi-bazoukery (uncountable)

1. Extreme physical violence; brutality; cruelty.
   • 1942, Northern California Writers' Program Work Projects Administration, chapter IV, in An Anthology of Music Criticism‎^[1], page 372:

     […] I knew well the self-important back-patting, the servile admiration, the ambiguous analyses, the petty praise, and the pettier intellectual bashi-bazoukery --'

   • 1951, Compton Mackenzie, Vestal Fire, Chatto & Windus, page 168:

     Late though the hour, there were quite enough people about to exaggerate the incident into fifty different versions and turn it into as bloodthirsty a piece of bashi-bazoukery as had ever thrilled Sirene.

   • 1960, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 287, page 544:

     Bashi-bazoukery was rampant in the area of Urfa and Ulysses was bastinadoed mercilessly.

Related terms

• bashi-bazouk
• bashibazouk