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boorish

adj
/ˈbʊəɹɪʃ/

Etymology

From boor + -ish.

  1. borrowed from boer
  2. suffixed as boorish — “boor + ish”

Definitions

  1. Behaving as a boor

    Behaving as a boor; rough in manners.

    • May Week. . . . As in every year, that infamous week was dragging its boorish heels with remarkable infestivity.
    • I don't suppose it's remotely possible that you are boorish and dickly, is it?
    • The only real-world effect is that it makes these figures appear boorish and unprofessional to anyone outside the online slopulist echo chamber.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for boorish. 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