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From boob + -ery.
boobery (uncountable)
- (informal) Folly; stupidity.
1995, Dennis Merrill, Documentary History of the Truman Presidency, volume 28, page 474:Others were acts of sheer boobery. The whole thing was called "the mess in Washington." Tom Dewey made a point that he was going to clean it up in his 1948 campaign.