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BOARISH

Definition: BOARISH

BOARISH

Adjective

1. Swinish; brutal; cruel.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BOARISH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1605. (references)

 

Modern Translation: BOARISH

Language Translations for "BOARISH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Portuguese

  

sujo (cloudy, crummy, dingy, dirty, ebon, feculent, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grouty, grubby, lousy, messy, miry, mucky, nasty, obscene, piggish, scurrilous, sloven, slovenly, smudgy, smutty, soiled, splotchy, squalid, stained, swinish, unclean, untidy, unwashed), sensual (amative, bestial, brutish, carnal, concupiscent, epicurean, fleshly, goatish, high-sounding, incontinent, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lubricous, lustful, sensual, sensuous, sexy, unreserved, voluptuous, wanton), porco (dirty, grubby, hog, hoggish, obscene, pig, piggish, pork, swine, swinish, unwashed), cruel (atrocious, barbaric, bitter, bloody, candle-wick, cruel, dark, fell, felon, fierce, grim, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, iron, merciless, pitiless, ruffian, ruthless, scathing, severe, shrewish, squint-eyed, tigerish, tigrish, truculent, uncharitable, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, wicked, wolfish). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

svinaktig (hoggish, piggish). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

кабанячий, грубий (abrupt, artless, barbaresque, barbaric, base, bearish, broad, brusque, brute, caddish, chuffy, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, crude, gross, hard boiled, homely, ill bred, knockabout, offhand, plebeian, primitive, ribald, rough, rough spoken, rude, scratchy, shaggy, surly, swinish, truculent, uncouth). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "BOARISH"

Words rhyming with "BOARISH" (pronounced 'Boar"ish'): Abolish, Admonish, Affamish, Alish, Amateurish, Apish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Bearish, Beauish, Blackish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Bookish, Boorish, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish, Brownish, Buccaneerish, Buckish, Buffoonish, Bullish, Calvish, Cavalierish, Cherish, Childish, Churlish, Clayish, Clownish, Coldish, Coltish, Coolish, Coyish, Czarish, Dampish, Danish, Dankish, Darkish. (additional references)

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Anagrams: BOARISH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-h-i-o-r-s"

-1 letter: abhors, isobar.

-2 letters: abhor, abris, boars, boras, brash, brios, hairs, hoars, horas, obias, ohias, sabir, sahib.

-3 letters: abos, abri, airs, arbs, bars, bash, bias, bios, boar, boas, bora, bosh, bras, brio, bris, bros, hair, hoar, hobs, hora, isba, oars, obia, obis, ohia, orbs, osar, rash, rhos, rias, ribs, robs, sari, shri, soar, sora.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-h-i-o-r-s"
 

+1 letter: boarfish, broadish.

 

+2 letters: abolisher, behaviors, choriambs, shipboard.

 

+3 letters: abolishers, archbishop, behaviours, biohazards, boarfishes, charbroils, chipboards, euphorbias, harborside, hybridomas, kohlrabies, shipboards.

 

+4 letters: acrophobias, archbishops, behaviorism, behaviorist, bichromates, biographees, biographers, biographies, brachiators, brachiopods, chrysarobin, hibernators, misbehavior, rhabdovirus, switchboard, vibraphones, whiteboards.

 

+5 letters: agoraphobias, agoraphobics, ailurophobes, behaviorisms, behaviorists, botherations, brachiations, branchiopods, charbroilers, chrysarobins, dishonorable, dishonorably, hibernations, hydrophobias, misbehaviors, negrophobias, subarachnoid, switchboards, vibraphonist.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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