boor

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You're a boor, a _betyár_, a good-for-nothing rascal, a runaway ragamuffin, that's what you are!

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  1. noun A person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement.
  2. noun A peasant.
  3. Syntax Note
    Synonyms: boor, barbarian, churl, lout1, vulgarian, yahoo
    These nouns denote an uncouth and uncultivated person: listened to the boor talk about himself all night; a barbarian bewildered by the art exhibit; offended by the churl's lack of manners; was married to an uncaring lout; refused to invite the vulgarian; acted like a yahoo at the restaurant.

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  • The central problem of the show, which I've written about in the past, is that Tommy Gavin is often a just a selfish boor -- and a predictably immature boor at that.
  • Packwood the boor was tossed for ... nothing that mattered. —  Latest Articles
  • The thought put him in a rage, while the idea of meeting Stevens on an equality humiliated him--strife with such a boor was in itself a degradation. —  Elder Conklin
  • Sometimes he would come behind an unsuspecting boor, and give, close to his ear, a discordant bray from his trumpet, like the note of a jackass, which made him jump, and the crowd roar with merriment; or, perhaps, when the clarionet or the fife was engaged in giving the people a tune, he would drown either, or both of them, in a wild yell of his instrument. —  Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes
  • A very small stock for a vee-boor, or South African grazier Withal our field-cornet was not unhappy. —  The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
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lout ·  oaf ·  bumpkin ·  clodhopper ·  brute ·  lubber ·  dolt ·  gawk ·  vagabond ·  churl ·  buffoon ·  ruffian

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boor:   boors
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Dutch boer, from Middle Dutch gheboer; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also boore, bour (also improperly bore, boar), possibly, in the form bour (modern English properly *bower, bou′ėr) (cf. English dial. bor, neighbor, as a form of address), from Middle English *bour, from Anglo-Saxon gebūr, a dweller, husbandman, farmer, countryman (a word surviving without distinctive meaning in the compound neighbour, neighbor, from Anglo-Saxon neàh-gebūr); but in the ordinary form and pronunciation, boor, from Low German būr, buur, Middle Low German būr, gebūr, a husbandman, farmer, = Dutch buur, Middle Dutch ghebure, ghebuer, neighbor, Dutch boer, Middle Dutch geboer (a later form, prob. borrowed from Low German), a husbandman, farmer, rustic, knave at cards, = Old High German gibūr, gibūro, Middle High German gebūr, gebūre, German bauer, a husbandman, peasant, rustic, = Anglo-Saxon gebūr, as above; literally one who occupies the same dwelling (house, village, farm) with another, one who dwells with or near another (a sense more definitely expressed by the Anglo-Saxon neàh-gebūr, ‘nigh-dweller,’ neighbor: see neighbor), from ge-, together, a generalizing or coördinating prefix (see ge-), + būr, later English bower, a dwelling: see bower. The forms, as those of others from the same root (Anglo-Saxon būan, dwell, etc.), are somewhat confused in the several languages. See bower, bower, bower, etc., and neighbor.
 

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