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boor
- /bʊə/ UK
- /bɔː/ UK
- /bʊɹ/ US
- /boɹ/
- /bʉːɹ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
- /buːɹ/ Ireland
Sounds like Boer (one pronunciation), boar (pour–poor merger), bore (pour–poor merger), Bohr (pour–poor merger) · Rhymes with -ʊə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”). Doublet of bauer, Boer, and bower (“peasant, farmer”).
For the meaning development from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-, compare with other derived from this term 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”)).
Compare typologically with pagan (see more).
noun boors
- A peasant. Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and franklins say it, I’ll swear it.
- A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
- A yokel, country bumpkin.
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An uncultured person; a vulgarian.
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 dinn
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Talk about this word "boor." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/boor. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. boor. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/boor "boor." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/boor.Cite this
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