What does boor mean?
Definitions for boor
bʊərboor
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word boor.
Princeton's WordNet
peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke, tikenoun
a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
Wiktionary
boornoun
A peasant.
boornoun
A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent
boornoun
A yokel, country bumpkin,
boornoun
An uncultured person
Etymology: From boer.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
BOORnoun
A ploughman; a country fellow; a lout; a clown.
Etymology: beer, Dutch; gebure, Sax.
The bare sense of a calamity is called grumbling; and if a man does but make a face upon the boor, he is presently a male-content. Roger L'Estrange.
He may live as well as a boor of Holland, whose cares of growing still richer waste his life. William Temple.
To one well-born, th’ affront is worse and more,
When he’s abus’d and baffl’d by a boor. Dryden.
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boor
A boor is a person who behaves in a rude, rough, or unrefined manner; or who is lacking in social restraint, manners, or good taste. This term is often used to describe someone who is insensitive, ill-mannered, or uncouth.
Webster Dictionary
Boornoun
a husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman
Boornoun
a Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer
Boornoun
a rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Boor
bōōr, n. a countryman, a peasant: a Dutch colonist in South Africa: a coarse or awkward person.—adj. Boor′ish, like a boor: awkward or rude.—adv. Boor′ishly.—n. Boor′ishness. [Dut. boer; Ger. bauer. The A.S. gebúr, a farmer, may explain the East Anglian bor, neighbour, as a form of address.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BOOR
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Boor is ranked #22173 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Boor surname appeared 1,165 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Boor.
96.4% or 1,124 total occurrences were White.
0.9% or 11 total occurrences were Black.
0.8% or 10 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
0.7% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.5% or 6 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.4% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of boor in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of boor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of boor in a Sentence
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.
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- غليظArabic
- грубиянBulgarian
- αγροίκοςGreek
- patánSpanish
- rustre, mufle, pignoufFrench
- badoco, pailán, pailaroco, paiolo, paduán, paifocoGalician
- गंवारHindi
- cafone, boeroItalian
- ಬೂರ್Kannada
- cham, Bur, prostakPolish
- rústicoPortuguese
- incult, mojic, necioplit, țăran, bădăranRomanian
- грубиян, грубиянка, хам, хамкаRussian
- tolpSwedish
- బోర్Telugu
- higrobälan, jigrobälan, grobälanVolapük
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