Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to a boar; resembling a boar; swinish; sensual; cruel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Swinish; brutal; cruel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete swinish; brutal; cruel
  • adjective Because I would not see thy cruel nails / Pluck out his poor old eyes; nor thy fierce sister / In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs. Shakespeare: King Lear, act III, scene vii.

Etymologies

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boar +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • He just shook his boarish head and downed an entire pint of mead in one gulp, never breaking his glare from the walls.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2009

  • He just shook his boarish head and downed an entire pint of mead in one gulp, never breaking his glare from the walls.

    Why I Began the End Megan Arkenberg 2009

  • The fences that had kept people penned in remained intact, the cross-shaped corridors that separated the audience into quadrants had not been breached, and the boarish imbeciles still held guns and positions of arbitrary power.

    Three Days in the Desert 2008

  • And when I am despairing, I shall recall these wonderful words of HPL, quoted in the Guardian today: I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales, but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do any thing so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

    Hot 'n Humid K. A. Laity 2005

  • The boarish creature ran right into the swarm of bees.

    Up In A Heaval Anthony, Piers 2002

  • The brandy and water was brought, and Ted making a polite bow to the company, passed down the room with a slight tremor of the hornpipe in his legs, and a faint trill of the tune on his lips, both of which melted gradually into a boarish grunt and roll as he reached the lobby and passed out into the garden.

    The Pirate City An Algerine Tale 1859

  • They tell us that men are boarish, lust after women while drinking cheap beers, and order endless rounds of pizza without ever developing a gut.

    TV Squad 2009

  • They tell us that men are boarish, lust after women while drinking cheap beers, and order endless rounds of pizza without ever developing a gut.

    TV Squad 2009

  • They tell us that men are boarish, lust after women while drinking cheap beers, and order endless rounds of pizza without ever developing a gut.

    TV Squad 2009

  • They tell us that men are boarish, lust after women while drinking cheap beers, and order endless rounds of pizza without ever developing a gut.

    TV Squad 2009

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