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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
BOOR, n. A countryman; a peasant; a rustic; a plowman; a clown; hence, one who is rude in manners, and illiterate.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement [syn: peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke, tike]
Merriam Webster's
noun Etymology: Dutch boer; akin to Old English b?an to dwell — more at bower Date: 15511. peasant2. a rude or insensitive person
Oxford Reference Dictionary
n. 1 a rude, ill-mannered person. 2 a clumsy person. Derivatives: boorish adj. boorishly adv. boorishness n. Etymology: LG bur or Du. boer farmer: cf. BOWER(3)
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Boor Boor, n. [D. boer farmer, boor; akin to AS. geb?r countryman, G. bauer; fr. the root of AS. b?an to inhabit, and akin to E. bower, be. Cf. Neighbor, Boer, and Big to build.] 1. A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman. 2. A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer. 3. A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
(boors) If you refer to someone as a boor, you think their behaviour and attitudes are rough, uneducated, and rude. = oaf N-COUNT [disapproval]
Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
n. Rustic, clown, hind, lout, lubber, swain, peasant, bumpkin, clodpole, countryman, ploughman.
Moby Thesaurus
Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, backwoodsman, barbarian, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, boob, botcher, bounder, bourgeois, bucolic, buffoon, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, cad, churl, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, country bumpkin, dolt, epicier, farmer, fumbler, galoot, gawk, gawky, goop, gowk, groundling, guttersnipe, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, hooligan, hoyden, ill-bred fellow, klutz, looby, loon, lout, low fellow, lubber, lummox, mucker, nouveau riche, oaf, ox, parvenu, peasant, philistine, provincial, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rube, ruffian, rustic, slob, slouch, slubberer, swain, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yahoo, yokel
