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• n  class consisting of all those who are considered boobs

• Had he been born a contemporary of Mencken's, Wolfe would have railed at the booboisie.
• Mencken coined expressions like "Bible Belt," "booboisie," "Yahwah," which became part of the language of his imitative admirers but not slang.
• But in larger matters he was more naive than the booboisie.