Boor

Definition: Boor

Boor

Noun

1. A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "boor" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Multilingual Slang

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Synonyms: Boor

Commonalty

Peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius; serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy; rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper, slubberdegullion; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon.

Crosswords: Boor

Afrikaan (bore), Dutch (bore), Manx (blare).

Books

• A Concordance to the Nibelungenlied, Bartsch-de Boor Text (reference)

• Boor tolgoo : anggemeler (reference)

• Horace Satire 1.9: The Boor (reference)

  (more book examples)

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His Lordship of London, M.D. : (Sir Thomas Boor Crosby, Kt.). Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

Albanian

harbut (caddish, churl, discourteous, disrespectful, graceless, indelicate, lout, loutish). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فظ (abrupt, blunt, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, coarse, country, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, savage, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unkind, unmannerly, unprintable), ‏غليظ (churlish, coarse, hoarse, loutish, mannerless, robust, rugged, rustic, stodgy, strongarm, thick, ungainly, unmannerly, wild), ‏ريفي ساذج. (various references)

Bulgarian 

грубиян (abuser, bohunk, bulldozer, chuff, churl, clown, hottentot, larrikin, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, savage, yap), дебелак (lout, oaf). (various references)

Czech

neotesanec (bumpkin), hulvát (churl, swashbuckler), hrubián (lout). (various references)

Dutch

vlegel (naughty boy, pickle, rude fellow). (various references)

Esperanto

impertinentulo. (various references)

Farsi 

ادم خشن , ادم بی تربیت (Cad), روستاءی (Bucolic, Clodhopper, Hobnail, Kern, Peasant, Rural, Ruralist, Russet, Russeting, Rustic, Villager, Yokel), دهاتی (Backwoodsman, Boorish, Clodhopper, Hobnail, Kern, Peasant, Rustic, Villager, Yokel), باغبان (Gardener). (various references)

Finnish

moukka (lout). (various references)

French

butor (bounder), rustre (boorish), malotru, gros (bold), goujat (bounder), abruti. (various references)

German

stoffel (lout), lümmel (boors, lout, lubbers, oaf, tyke, tykes, Willie), flegel (boors, brat, churl, churls, cub, cubs, flail, lout, oaf, roughneck, yob), bauer (bumpkin, cage, farmer, grower, hans, husbandman, pawn, peasant, peasants, rustic, tiller, yokel). (various references)

Greek 

χωριάτησ (bumpkin, clodhopper, countryman, Hick, rube, rustic, villager, yokel), άξεστοσ (boorish, crude, lout, raw, rough, uncouth, unpolished, unrefined). (various references)

Hebrew 

�'ולם (awkward person, clod, dummy, embryo, ignoramus, larva, lubber, lummox, lunkhead, oaf, pupa, robot), �'ס רוח (caddish, haughty, roughneck, rude, vulgar). (various references)

Hungarian

bugris (bumpkin, chaw-bacon, churlish, clod, clod-hopper, goop, Hick, roughneck, rube, yokel), boer, ripők (bumpkin, rep), paraszt (churl, cottager, farmer, goop, hayseed, hick, hob, peasant, ploughman, rustic, ryot, tacky, wooly-back, yokel), neveletlen ember, durva ember (ape, cad, pig, savage). (various references)

Indonesian

orang yang tak sopan, orang yang kurang ajar. (various references)

Italian

buzzurro (clod), zoticone (bumpkin, clodhopper, lout, lubber, oaf), scostumato (boorish, dissolute, immoral), maleducato (boorish, bounder, cad, caddish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, mannerless, rude, underbred), contadino (agrarian, countryman, farmer, hans, pawn, peasant), cafone (peasant, raffish, rustic). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

無骨者 (rustic), �"�夫野人 (hick, rustic), 武骨者 (rustic), 山猿 (bumpkin, monkey). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぶ�"つもの (rustic), で�"ぷやじ�" (hick, rustic), やまざる (bumpkin, monkey). (various references)

Manx

boddagh 2 (an old man, countryman, farm servant, peasant, yokel), boddagh (an old man, Boyde, countryman, farm servant, peasant, yokel). (various references)

Pig Latin

oorbay.(various references)

Portuguese

rústico (backwoods, boorish, bumbling, bumpkin, chuff, churl, churlish, cloddish, clodhopper, clown, countrified, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubber, mucker, peasant, rude, rural, rustic, rustical, uncouth, underbred, yokel), indivíduoimpertinente, camponês (chuff, cottager, countryman, farmer, landsman, peasant, rustic, ryot, yokel), cafajeste (vulgar person). (various references)

Romanian

bocciu (blockhead), bãdãran (bearish, bumpkin, cad, churl, churlish, clown, curmudgeon, hawbuck, hind, lout, oaf, peasant, rough, yokel), persoanã necioplitã, mojic (cad, churl, cur, hawbuck), moc, mitocan (cad, clown, mobbish, rustic), mârlan, ţãran (churl, clown, cottager, countryman, moujik, peasant, rustic), ţãrãnoi (oaf, peasant, runt, yokel). (various references)

Russian 

грубый человек (beast, churl, hog, rough customer, savage), грубый (bad, barbaric, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute, brute-force, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, common, crass, crude, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, harsh, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, jazz, larrikin, loutish, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, raw, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough, rough and ready, rude, scratchy, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly), грубиян (butch, cad, chuff, churl, curmudgeon, mucker, tike, twerp, tyke), невоспитанный человек. (various references)

Scottish

amhlair (dull, fool, stupid person). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neotesanko, grubijan (chuff), grmalj (highbinder), gedža (hick, peasant). (various references)

Spanish

patán (backwoodsman, bumpkin, churl, clod, clodhopper, clown, country bumpkin, duffer, loon, lout, mucker, oaf, rube, yokel). (various references)

Swedish

buffel (buffalo, churl), tölp (churl, clod, clodhopper, clodpoll, clown, gawk, lout, lubber, lummox, yokel), grobian (caveman, ruffian). (various references)

Turkish

yontulmamış tip (ruffian, rustic), kaba kimse (mucker, rustic), kaba adam (backwoodsman, bear, cad, caveman, churl, clown, lout, mucker, yahoo), hödük (boorish, bumpkin, churl, clodhopper, clown, clumsy, country bumpkin, dry stick, dull stick, hayseed, Hick, lubber, oaf, roughneck, rube, ruffian, rustic, stick, yob, yokel), ayı (bear, boorish, bruin, ruffian). (various references)

Ukrainian

селюк (bush-whacker, chuff, churl, clown, gawky, red-neck, rustic, yahoo, yokel), невихована людина (bear). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người thô lỗ; người quê mùa nông dân, người cục mịch (lout). (various references)

Welsh

taeog (blunt, boorish, churl, churlish). (various references)

fossor. (various references)

bovier. (various references)

gheboer. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "boor": boorish, boorishly, boorishness, boorishnesses, boors. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Boor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bayor, Benor, beor, bero, Besor, beur, Biozorb, Bjor, blor, blour, boary, bodor, Bohor, bohr, boir, bojo, Bokor, bolr, bomr, bonor, booc, bood, booe, boof, boog, booh, booj, boop, Boord, boore, boov, bor, borh, bork, boro, bororo, Borotra, borq, borr, Boru, borx, bouer, Bouira, bouraq, Boure, bowr, broo, Bror, Buir, buro, byor, Obod, oboer, obrok, oor, zoor. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: broo.

-1 letter: boo, bro, orb, rob.

-2 letters: bo, or.

+1 letter: boors, boron, bromo, brood, brook, broom, broos, dobro, robot.

+2 letters: bolero, booger, booker, boomer, boozer, borons, borrow, borzoi, bromos, bronco, brooch, broods, broody, brooks, brooms, broomy, burgoo, dobros, goober, rebook, reboot, rebozo, robalo, robots.

+3 letters: barroom, bedroom, bicolor, biotron, bloomer, blooper, boleros, boodler, boogers, bookers, boomers, boomier, boorish, booster, bootery, boozers, boozier, boredom, borneol, boronic, borough, borrows, borzois, boudoir, bourbon, bourdon, bradoon, bridoon, brocoli, broncho, broncos, brooded, brooder, brooked, brookie, broomed, burgoos, cordoba, corncob, forbode, forbore, goobers, lobworm, lowborn, lowbrow, obligor, onboard, prebook, preboom, rebloom, rebooks, reboots, rebozos, robalos, robotic, robotry, rowboat, rubaboo, sorbose, theorbo, workbox.