boobocracy

English

Etymology

From boob +‎ -o- +‎ -cracy; apparently coined in imitation of booboisie

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒkɹəsi

Noun

boobocracy (uncountable)

1. Rule by the ignorant and uneducated.
   • 1921 October 19, “What's All the Shootin' For?”, in The Freeman, volume 4, number 84, →ISSN, page 125:

     The revelations about the Ku Klux Klan have told us nothing, except that what Mr. Mencken calls the "booboisie" is obviously a docile imitator of the boobocracy.

   • 1947, Francis Hackett, On Judging Books: In General and in Particular‎^[1], J. Day Co., →LCCN, →OL, page 11:

     And, if a boobocracy, why not play on it for profit? What else is it for?

   • 1978, Thomas Yoseloff, “The Tone of the Twenties”, in Alfred F. Rosa, editor, The Old Century and the New: Essays in Honor of Charles Angoff, Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 73:

     Henry L. Mencken could come up from Baltimore to spread terror among the boobocracy, and vanquish weekly the ministers, college professors, and chambers of commerce.

   • 1984, Anthony West, H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life‎^[2], London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, →OL, page 126:

     But in spite of the antics of its Bible thumpers and its boobocracy, my father was unable to stay mad at the United States for long.

References

• The Word Lover's Dictionary by Josefa Heifetz →ISBN