Boor \Boor\ (b[=oo]r), n. [D. boer farmer, boor; akin to AS.
geb[=u]r countryman, G. bauer; fr. the root of AS. b[=u]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.
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2. A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist
in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.
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3. A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
boor
n : a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or
refinement [syn: peasant, barbarian, churl, Goth,
tyke, tike]
WordNet (r) 2.0
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "boor":
Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
barbarian, churl, Goth, peasant, tike, tyke
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