Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement.
- noun A peasant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A countryman; a peasant; a rustic; a clown; particularly, a Dutch or German peasant.
- noun Hence One who is rude in manners, or illiterate; a clown; a clownish person.
- noun [capitalized] Same as
Boer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.
- noun A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.
- noun A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
peasant . - noun A
Boer , whiteSouth African ofDutch orHuguenot descent - noun A
yokel , country bumpkin, - noun An
uncultured person
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It's a reversal of the premise of "Amadeus," in which the boor is the genius and the court favorite a composer possessing more in the way of political skill than musical gifts.
NYC reviews: 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,' 'La Bête,' 'A Life in the Theatre' Peter Marks 2010
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Stanley, for example, was often called a boor and a brute when in reality he was merely hiding a fine nature behind the armour necessary to resist native imposition and worse.
An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918
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Though he is a boor, that is to be expected, as his father is an enlisted man.
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According to this argument based on self-assertive aggressiveness, the boor was the man possessed of a strong personality, while the gentleman was relatively "impersonal."
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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I hear if you watch “Passion of the Christ”, you turn into the kind of boor that says that all sex should be within a context of looking to get married and have babies.
Matthew Yglesias » Jessica Valenti on Anti-Feminists and So-Called “Hook-up Culture” 2009
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I hear if you watch “Passion of the Christ”, you turn into the kind of boor that says that all sex should be within a context of looking to get married and have babies.
Matthew Yglesias » Jessica Valenti on Anti-Feminists and So-Called “Hook-up Culture” 2009
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Rather, it's very clear that Will cut the line because it was an inconvenient impediment to his journalistic goal, which was to portray Webb as a "boor" who was rude to the Commander in Chief, and to show that this new upstart is a threat to Washington's alleged code of "civility and clear speaking" (his words).
George Will Distorts WaPo's Own Reporting To Smear Jim Webb 2009
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Will calls Webb a "boor" and a "pompous poseur" (two phrases that might have popped into Will's mind while shaving in the mirror that morning) and asserts Webb has "patent disrespect for the presidency".
George Will Faults Former Navy Secretary for "Making Waves"! 2006
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Rather, it's very clear that Will cut the line because it was an inconvenient impediment to his journalistic goal, which was to portray Webb as a "boor" who was rude to the Commander in Chief, and to show that this new upstart is a threat to Washington's alleged code of "civility and clear speaking" his words.
Hullabaloo 2006
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It is only a "boor" who seeks to impose his own hobbies and interests upon a stranger, disregarding entirely the presumable likes and dislikes of the latter.
Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises Donald Ogden Stewart 1937
hernesheir commented on the word boor
The parlor, bed-chamber, or inner room. --an old provincial term from Cumberland England; from Grose's 1787 A Provincial Glossary.
May 4, 2011