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View synonyms for boor
boor
/ bʊə /
noun
- an ill-mannered, clumsy, or insensitive person
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of boor1
Old English gebūr ; related to Old High German gibūr farmer, dweller, Albanian būr man; see neighbour
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Example Sentences
I do not know of any treasure in Bluar Boor, but I refer you to the enclosed letter which tells something of treasure elsewhere.
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Wo betide the family of the rich boor, who presumed to depart this life without a passport from Dr. Luke Lundin!
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He did mind, not bargaining for learning lessons in the holidays; but he could not show himself so uncivil a boor as to refuse.
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One of the chief grievances of the Irishman in the middle ages was that the man who robbed him was such a boor.
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You see this boor, a boor of the country, an illiterate boor, and yet the citizen of good-fellows.
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