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Webster 1913 Edition

Boor

(boōr)

Noun.

[D.

boer

farmer, boor; akin to AS.

gebūr

countryman, G.

bauer

; fr. the root of AS.

būan

to inhabit, and akin to E.

bower

. Cf.

Neighbor

Boer

, and

Big

to build.]

A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.

A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.

A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.

Webster 1828 Edition

Boor

BOOR

Noun.

A countryman; a peasant; a rustic; a plowman; a clown; hence, one who is rude in manners, and illiterate.

Definition 2024

Boor

See also: boor

German Low German

Alternative forms

(Low Prussian) Bar (Bor)

Noun

Boor ? (plural Booren)

(in many dialects) bear

boor

See also: Boor

English

Noun

boor ‎(plural boors)

A peasant.
A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent
A yokel, country bumpkin
An uncultured person

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Translations

a peasant

Bulgarian: грубиян (bg) ‎(grubijan)
French: rustre (fr)
Italian: cafone (it) m

Romanian: țăran (ro) m
Spanish: huaso (es) m (Chile)

a Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent

Italian: boero m

Polish: Bur (pl) m

a yokel

Czech: buran (cs) m
French: plouc (fr) m
Greek: αγροίκος (el) m ‎(agroíkos)

Romanian: țăran (ro) m, bădăran (ro) m, mojic (ro) m
Spanish: paleto m

an uncultured person

Czech: buran (cs) m
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
Italian: cafone (it) m
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
Volapük: (♂♀) grobälan (vo), (♂) higrobälan, (♀) jigrobälan

Anagrams

boro

Afrikaans

Chemical element
B	Previous: berillium (Be)
B	Next: koolstof (C)

Noun

boor ‎(plural bore, diminutive boortjie)

drill
(uncountable) boron

Synonyms

(chemical element): borium
(chemical element): boron

Verb

boor ‎(present boor, present participle borende, past participle geboor)

to drill

Dutch

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -oːr

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bore.

Noun

boor f ‎(plural boren, diminutive boortje n)

drill

Derived terms

boorapparaat n
booras m
boorbeitel m
boorbuis m
boorder m
booreiland n
boorgat n
boorhelper m
boorkever m
boorkop m
boorplatform n
boren (verb)

Verb

boor

first-person singular present indicative of boren
imperative of boren

Etymology 2

Chemical element
B	Previous: beryllium (Be)
B	Next: koolstof (C)

Dutchification of borium.

Noun

boor n ‎(uncountable)

boron

Synonyms

borium n

Derived terms

boorwater n
boorzalf m
boorzuur n

Related terms

borax n

Estonian

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

Noun

boor ‎(genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

boron

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Latin

Verb

boor

first-person singular present passive indicative of boō

Swedish

Noun

boor

indefinite plural of boa

Yola

Adjective

boor

poor

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Definition 2024

Boor

Boor

German Low German

Alternative forms

Noun

See also

boor

boor

English

Noun

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

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Verb

Etymology 2

Noun

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Estonian

Noun

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Noun

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Adjective

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