boor
nounEtymology
Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”). Doublet of bauer, Boer, and bower (“peasant, farmer”). For the meaning development from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-, compare with other derived from this term Russian обыва́тель (obyvátelʹ, “the average man/citizen, the man in the street, philistine, resident, inhabitant”), Polish bydło (“cattle, rabble”) (whence Russian бы́дло (býdlo, “rabble, uncultured or stupid people, sheeple”)). Compare typologically with pagan (see more).
- borrowed from boer
Definitions
A peasant.
- Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and franklins say it, I’ll swear it.
- For all the rich array and goodly port and countenance of Corinius, he seemed but a very boor beside the Lord Brandoch Daha, and dearly did each hate the other.
A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
A yokel, country bumpkin.
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An uncultured person
An uncultured person; a vulgarian.
The neighborhood
- neighborboorish
- neighborboorishly
- neighborboorishness
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for boor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA