boor

See also: Boor and bòòr

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”). Doublet of bauer, Boer, and bower (“peasant, farmer”).

For the meaning development compare with Russian обыва́тель (obyvátelʹ, “the average man/citizen, the man in the street, philistine, resident, inhabitant”), Polish bydło (“cattle, rabble”) (whence Russian бы́дло (býdlo, “rabble, uncultured or stupid people, sheeple”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bʊə/
  • (pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /bɔː/
• (General American) enPR: bo͝or, IPA^(key): /bʊɹ/
  • (pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /boɹ/

  • Audio (US):

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /bʉːɹ/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /buːɹ/
• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
• Homophones: Boer (one pronunciation); boar (pour–poor merger), bore (pour–poor merger), Bohr (pour–poor merger)

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.
   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], line 155:

     Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and franklins say it, I'll swear it.

   • 1905, Edmund Selous, The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands, p. 107 :

     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.

Related terms

• boorish
• boorishly
• boorishness

Translations

a peasant

• Bulgarian: селянин (bg) m (seljanin)
• Dutch: boer (nl) m or f
• French: rustre (fr)
• Italian: cafone (it) m, bifolco (it) m, becero (it) m, buzzurro (it) m, burino (it)
• Romanian: țăran (ro) m
• Spanish: huaso (es) m (Chile)
• Turkish: köylü (tr)

a Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent

• Bulgarian: бур m (bur)
• Esperanto: buro
• Italian: boero (it) m
• Polish: Bur (pl) m

a yokel

• Czech: buran (cs) m
• French: plouc (fr) m
• German: Tölpel (de) m
• Greek: αγροίκος (el) m (agroíkos)
• Romanian: țăran (ro) m, bădăran (ro) m, mojic (ro) m
• Spanish: paleto (es) m

an uncultured person

• Bulgarian: грубиян (bg) m (grubijan)
• Czech: buran (cs) m, neotesanec (cs) m, primitiv (cs) m
• Finnish: jyväjemmari (fi) (derogatory), moukka (fi)
• French: beauf (fr) m, mufle (fr) m, pignouf (fr) m, plouc (fr) m, rustre (fr) m
• Galician: pailán, pailaroco, paifoco (gl), paiolo (gl), paduán (gl), badoco
• German: Rüpel (de) m
• Greek: αγροίκος (el) m (agroíkos)
• Irish: abhlóir m, amhlán m
• Italian: cafone (it) m
• Latin: rupex m
• Ottoman Turkish: هودوك (hödük), چوبان (çoban)
• Persian: ارنئوت (arna'wt)
• Polish: prostak (pl) m, cham (pl) m
• Portuguese: rústico (pt) m
• Romanian: necioplit (ro) m, incult (ro) m
• Russian: хам (ru) m (xam), ха́мка (ru) f (xámka), грубия́н (ru) m (grubiján), грубия́нка (ru) f (grubijánka), мужи́к (ru) m (mužík)
• Spanish: patán (es) m, cateto (es) m, paleto (es) m
• Swedish: tölp (sv) c, bonnläpp c
• Turkish: hödük (tr), kıro (tr) (informal)
• Volapük: (♂♀) grobälan (vo), (♂) higrobälan, (♀) jigrobälan

Anagrams

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

Afar

Etymology

From French port.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːr/ [ˈboːɾ]
• Hyphenation: boor

Noun

bóor m 

1. port, harbour

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 52

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʊər/

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Etymology 1

From Dutch boor, from Middle Dutch bore.

Noun

boor (plural bore, diminutive boortjie)

1. drill

Etymology 2

Chemical element
B
Previous: berillium (Be)
Next: koolstof (C)

From Dutch boor, from borium.

Noun

boor (uncountable)

1. boron

Synonyms

• borium

Etymology 3

From Dutch boren.

Verb

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

1. to drill

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boːr/

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• Hyphenation: boor
• Rhymes: -oːr

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bore.

Noun

boor f (plural boren, diminutive boortje n)

1. drill

Derived terms

• boorder
• boren
• boorapparaat
• booras
• boorbeitel
• boorbuis
• booreiland
• boorgat
• boorhelper
• boorkever
• boorkop
• boorplatform

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: boor
• → Aukan: boo
• → Caribbean Hindustani: boro
• → Caribbean Javanese: bur
• → Indonesian: bor
• → Papiamentu: bor, boor
• → Sranan Tongo: boro, boor
  • → Saramaccan: bolú

Etymology 2

Chemical element
B
Previous: beryllium (Be)
Next: koolstof (C)

Dutchification of borium.

Noun

boor n (uncountable)

1. boron

Synonyms

• borium

Derived terms

• boorwater
• boorzalf
• boorzuur

Related terms

• borax

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

boor

1. inflection of boren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Estonian

Chemical element
B
Previous: berüllium (Be)
Next: süsinik (C)

Noun

boor (genitive boori, partitive boori)

1. boron

Declension

Declension of boor (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		boor	boorid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	boori
genitive			booride
partitive		boori	boore boorisid
illative		boori boorisse	booridesse booresse
inessive		booris	boorides boores
elative		boorist	booridest boorest
allative		boorile	booridele boorele
adessive		booril	booridel boorel
ablative		boorilt	booridelt boorelt
translative		booriks	boorideks booreks
terminative		boorini	boorideni
essive		boorina	booridena
abessive		boorita	boorideta
comitative		booriga	booridega

Latin

Verb

boor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of boō

Middle English

Noun

boor

1. Alternative form of bor

Southwestern Dinka

Noun

boor (plural booth)

1. goat

References

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎^[2], 2005

Swedish

Noun

boor

1. indefinite plural of boa

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English poor, from Old French povre, from Latin pauper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːɾ/

Adjective

boor

1. poor
   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 96:

     An a boor lithel breedegroom waithed wonderfullee griefte.

     And the poor dirty bridegroom looked wondrously grieved.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 27