boor

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See also: Boor and bòòr

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”). Doublet of bauer, Boer, and bower (“peasant, farmer”).

Pronunciation

Noun

boor (plural boors)

  1. A peasant.
  2. A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
  3. A yokel, country bumpkin.
  4. An uncultured person.
    • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 155:
      Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and franklins say it, I'll swear it.
    • 1905, Edmund Selous, The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands, p. 107 :
      I question if any man ever saw his absent friend more clearly than did Shakespeare his Falstaff, for instance, or Scott his Balfour of Burleigh. But does it, therefore, follow that either of these great writers would, when hungry, have summoned up before him a clearer picture of his approaching dinner, than does the equally hungry or very much hungrier boor? This I doubt; and on the same principle I doubt if the said boor would see his dinner more clearly than a wolf, bear, or tiger would theirs when in quest of it.

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Translations

References

  1. ^ →OCLC

Anagrams

Afar

Etymology

From French port.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈboːr/,
  • Hyphenation: boor

Noun

bóor m 

  1. port, harbour

References

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 52

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Dutch boor, from Middle Dutch bore.

Noun

boor (plural bore, diminutive boortjie)

  1. drill

Etymology 2

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

From Dutch boor, from borium.

Noun

boor (uncountable)

  1. boron
Synonyms

Etymology 3

From Dutch boren.

Verb

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

  1. to drill

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bore.

Noun

boor f (plural boren, diminutive boortje n)

  1. drill
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: boor
  • → Aukan: boo
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: boro
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bur
  • → Indonesian: bor
  • → Papiamentu: bor, boor
  • → Sranan Tongo: boro, boor

Etymology 2

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

Dutchification of borium.

Noun

boor n (uncountable)

  1. boron
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

boor

  1. inflection of boren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Estonian

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

boor (genitive boori, partitive boori)

  1. boron

Declension

Declension of boor (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative boor boorid
accusative nom.
gen. boori
genitive booride
partitive boori boore
boorisid
illative boori
boorisse 		booridesse
booresse
inessive booris boorides
boores
elative boorist booridest
boorest
allative boorile booridele
boorele
adessive booril booridel
boorel
ablative boorilt booridelt
boorelt
translative booriks boorideks
booreks
terminative boorini boorideni
essive boorina booridena
abessive boorita boorideta
comitative booriga booridega

Latin

Verb

boor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of boō

Middle English

Noun

boor

  1. Alternative form of bor

Southwestern Dinka

Noun

boor (plural booth)

  1. goat

References

  • Dinka-English Dictionary‎, 2005

Swedish

Noun

boor

  1. indefinite plural of boa

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English poor, from Old French povre, from Latin pauper.

Pronunciation

Adjective

boor

  1. poor
    • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 96:
      An a boor lithel breedegroom waithed wonderfullee griefte.
      And the poor dirty bridegroom looked wondrously grieved.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 27
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