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Synonyms for boors

Grammar : Noun
Spell : boor
Phonetic Transcription : bʊər

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Définition of boors

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 :
  • I understood; and, without taking leave of the two boors, I left the room.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • I am a poet, and play upon the tympani; the conductor and the orchestra are boors.
  • Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker
  • Mention them in English, and we are at once boors and churls.
  • Extract from : « The Book-Hunter at Home » by P. B. M. Allan
  • I felt it that first evening, when we behaved toward her like a couple of boors.
  • Extract from : « Jewel » by Clara Louise Burnham
  • Now I would ask, why could these naturalists not let the nomenclature of the boors alone?
  • Extract from : « The Bush Boys » by Captain Mayne Reid
  • But we shall name him, as the boors have done, a “wild hound.”
  • Extract from : « The Bush Boys » by Captain Mayne Reid
  • Times of action make princes into peasants, and boors into barons.
  • Extract from : « The Monastery » by Sir Walter Scott
  • And just because they themselves are cattle, horses, boors, who don't understand the tailor's art!
  • Extract from : « Yiddish Tales » by Various
  • The boors dined in a room by themselves during the rest of their stay.
  • Extract from : « Romantic Spain » by John Augustus O'Shea
  • They could be no other than blue-bucks, or blauw-boks in the language of the boors.
  • Extract from : « The Young Yagers » by Mayne Reid

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