About The Word Boor
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Boor
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What's The Definition Of Boor?
[n] a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
Synonyms | Synonyms for Boor: barbarian | churl | Goth | peasant | tike | tyke Related Terms | Find terms related to Boor: arriviste | Babbitt | backwoodsman | barbarian | blockhead | blunderer | blunderhead | boob | botcher | bounder | bourgeois | bucolic | buffoon | bumbler | bumpkin | bungler | cad | churl | clod | clodhopper | clodknocker | clot | clown | country bumpkin | dolt | epicier | farmer | fumbler | galoot | gawk | gawky | goop | gowk | groundling | guttersnipe | hayseed | hick | hillbilly | hooligan | hoyden | ill-bred fellow | klutz | looby | loon | lout | low fellow | lubber | lummox | mucker | nouveau riche | oaf | ox | parvenu | peasant | Philistine | provincial | ribald | rough | roughneck | rowdy | rube | ruffian | rustic | slob | slouch | slubberer | swain | upstart | vulgarian | vulgarist | yahoo | yokel See Also | disagreeable person | unpleasant person Boor In Webster's Dictionary \Boor\, n. [D. boer farmer, boor; akin to AS. geb?r
countryman, G. bauer; fr. the root of AS. b?an to inhabit,
and akin to E. bower, be. Cf. {Neighbor}, {Boer}, and {Big}
to build.]
1. A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or
unrefined countryman.
2. A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist
in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.
3. A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.
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