boor

See also: Boor

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“dweller, inhabitant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʊə/
  • IPA^(key): /bɔː/
• enPR: bo͝or, IPA^(key): /bʊɹ/
  • IPA^(key): /bɔɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
• Homophones: Boer, boar (cure–force merger), bore (cure–force merger), Bohr (cure–force 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.
   • 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)
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• 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

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

a yokel

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

an uncultured person

• Bulgarian: грубиян (bg) m (grubijan)
• Czech: buran (cs) m
• Finnish: jyväjemmari (fi) (derogatory), moukka (fi)
• 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
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• 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
• Swedish: tölp (sv) c, bonnläpp c
• Volapük: (♂♀) grobälan (vo), (♂) higrobälan, (♀) jigrobälan

Anagrams

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

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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

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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
• → Indonesian: bor

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. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of boren
2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of boren

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Estonian

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

Noun

boor (genitive boori, partitive boori)

1. boron

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) 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. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of boa

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Yola

Adjective

boor

1. poor