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, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot 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

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

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From Dutch boer ("peasant").

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