boor

See also: Boor

English

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 :

     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: грубиян (bg) (grubijan)
• Dutch: boer (nl) m, f
• French: rustre (fr)

• Italian: cafone (it) m, bifolco (it) m, becero (it) m, buzzurro (it) m
• Romanian: țăran (ro) m
• Spanish: huaso (es) m (Chile)

a Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent

• Italian: boero (it) m

• Polish: Bur (pl) m

a yokel

• Czech: buran (cs) m
• French: plouc (fr) m
• Greek: αγροίκος (el) m (agroíkos)

• Romanian: țăran (ro) m, bădăran (ro) m, mojic (ro) m
• Spanish: paleto m

an uncultured person

• Czech: buran (cs) m
• Finnish: jyväjemmari (fi) (derogatory)
• French: mufle (fr) m, pignouf (fr) m, rustre (fr) m, beauf (fr) m, plouc (fr) m
• Galician: pailán, pailaroco, paifoco (gl), paiolo (gl), paduán (gl), badoco
• Greek: αγροίκος (el) m (agroíkos)
• Irish: abhlóir m, amhlán m
• Italian: cafone (it) m
• Latin: rupex m

• Persian: ارنئوت‎‎ (arnaut)
• 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)
• Spanish: patán (es) m, cateto (es) m, paleto m
• Volapük: (♂♀) grobälan (vo), (♂) higrobälan, (♀) jigrobälan

Anagrams

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

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Afrikaans

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

Noun

boor (plural bore, diminutive boortjie)

1. drill
2. (uncountable) boron

Synonyms

• (chemical element): borium

Verb

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

1. to drill

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -oːr

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Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bore.

Noun

boor f (plural boren, diminutive boortje n)

1. drill

Derived terms

• boorapparaat n
• booras m
• boorbeitel m
• boorbuis m
• boorder m
• booreiland n
• boorgat n
• boorhelper m
• boorkever m
• boorkop m
• boorplatform n
• boren (verb)

Verb

boor

1. first-person singular present indicative of boren
2. imperative of boren

Etymology 2

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

Dutchification of borium.

Noun

boor n (uncountable)

1. boron

Synonyms

• borium n

Derived terms

• boorwater n
• boorzalf m
• boorzuur n

Related terms

• borax n

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Estonian

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

Noun

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

1. boron

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Latin

Verb

boor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of boō

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Middle English

Noun

boor

1. Alternative form of bor

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Swedish

Noun

boor

1. indefinite plural of boa

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Adjective

boor

1. poor