boor

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“dweller, inhabitant”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bŏŏr, IPA^(key): /bʊə(ɹ)/, enPR: bô, IPA^(key): /bɔː(ɹ)/
• (US) enPR: bŏŏr, IPA^(key): /bʊɹ/, enPR: bôr, IPA^(key): /bɔɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(r), -ɔː(r)
• Homophones: Boer, boar, bore, Bohr

Noun

boor (plural boors)

1. A peasant.
2. A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
3. A yokel, country bumpkin.
4. An uncultured person.
   • 1905, Edmund Selous, The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands, p. 107 ^[1]:

     I question if any man ever saw his absent friend more clearly than did Shakespeare his Falstaff, for instance, or Scott his Balfour of Burleigh. But does it, therefore, follow that either of these great writers would, when hungry, have summoned up before him a clearer picture of his approaching dinner, than does the equally hungry or very much hungrier boor? This I doubt; and on the same principle I doubt if the said boor would see his dinner more clearly than a wolf, bear, or tiger would theirs when in quest of it.

References

Anagrams

• -boro, Boro, boro, boro-, broo, robo-

Noun

boor (plural bore, diminutive boortjie)

1. drill
2. (uncountable) boron

Verb

boor (present boor, present participle borende, past participle geboor)

1. to drill

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -oːr

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Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bore.

Etymology 2

Dutchification of borium.

Noun

boor (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. boron

Verb

boor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of boō

Noun

boor

1. indefinite plural of boa

Adjective

boor

1. poor