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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“dweller, inhabitant”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (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/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʊə(r), -ɔː(r)
- Homophones: Boer, boar, bore, Bohr
Noun[edit]
boor (plural boors)
- A peasant.
- A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
- A yokel, country bumpkin.
- 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.
- 1905, Edmund Selous,
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
a peasant
a yokel
an uncultured person
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References[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Afrikaans[edit]
Chemical element | |
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B | Previous: berillium (Be) |
Next: koolstof (C) |
Noun[edit]
boor (plural bore, diminutive boortjie)
Synonyms[edit]
- (chemical element): borium
Verb[edit]
boor (present boor, present participle borende, past participle geboor)
- to drill
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle Dutch bore.
Noun[edit]
boor f (plural boren, diminutive boortje n)
Derived terms[edit]
- 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[edit]
boor
Etymology 2[edit]
Chemical element | |
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B | Previous: beryllium (Be) |
Next: koolstof (C) |
Dutchification of borium.
Noun[edit]
boor n (uncountable)
Synonyms[edit]
- borium n
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- borax n
Estonian[edit]
Chemical element | |
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B | Previous: berüllium (Be) |
Next: süsinik (C) |
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
boor (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
Declension[edit]
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
boor
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
boor
- Alternative form of bor
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
boor
- indefinite plural of boa
Yola[edit]
Adjective[edit]
boor
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