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Grammar : Noun
Spell : boor
Phonetic Transcription : bʊər


Definition of boor

Origin :
  • 13c., from Old French bovier "herdsman," from Latin bovis, genitive of bos "cow, ox." Re-introduced 16c. from Dutch boer, from Middle Dutch gheboer "fellow dweller," from Proto-Germanic *buram "dweller," especially "farmer," from PIE *bhu-, from root *bheue- (see be). Original meaning was "peasant farmer" (cf. German Bauer, Dutch boer, Danish bonde), and in English it was at first applied to agricultural laborers in or from other lands, as opposed to the native yeoman; negative connotation attested by 1560s (in boorish), from notion of clownish rustics. Related: Boorishness.
  • noun clod
Example sentences :
  • It was as well I did not: the boor would not have known what I meant.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 » by Various
  • Am I Vicomtesse of Lavedan, or the wife of a boor of the countryside?
  • Extract from : « Bardelys the Magnificent » by Rafael Sabatini
  • On the other hand, Steve felt a boor for having sent the books.
  • Extract from : « The Gorgeous Girl » by Nalbro Bartley
  • Some have no veneer like this boor, and some have the polish, but they are all the same underneath.
  • Extract from : « In Apple-Blossom Time » by Clara Louise Burnham
  • It was plain to every eye, moreover, that he was a gentleman and no boor.
  • Extract from : « A Hungarian Nabob » by Maurus Jkai
  • Indeed, without it only a boor or a saint can be really comfortable.
  • Extract from : « Girls and Women » by Harriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}
  • He may be a boor, but Plutus lends a charm which eclipses the grace of Apollo.
  • Extract from : « Humanity in the City » by E. H. Chapin
  • God curse the day you sent me to Calais, a gentleman's son, to be beat by a boor!'
  • Extract from : « Privy Seal » by Ford Madox Ford
  • This was sternly denied, and they were ordered to appear at the house of the boor.
  • Extract from : « The Mission; or Scenes in Africa » by Captain Frederick Marryat
  • He was behaving like a boor; but it was better that she should think him one.
  • Extract from : « Prescott of Saskatchewan » by Harold Bindloss

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