boor

Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“dweller, inhabitant”). Doublet of bauer, Boer, and bower (“peasant, farmer”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bʊə/
  • (cure–force merger) IPA^(key): /bɔː/
• (General American) enPR: bo͝or, IPA^(key): /bʊɹ/
  • (cure–force merger) IPA^(key): /bɔɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
• Homophones: Boer, boar (cure–force merger), bore (cure–force merger), Bohr (cure–force merger)

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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], 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 [1]:

     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.

• boorish
• boorishly
• boorishness

• -boro, Boro, OBOR, boro, boro-, broo, robo, robo-

From French port.

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːr/, [ˈboːɾ]
• Hyphenation: boor

bóor m 

1. port, harbour

• 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

• IPA^(key): /bʊər/

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From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Middle Dutch bore.

boor (plural bore, diminutive boortjie)

1. drill

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from borium.

boor (uncountable)

1. boron

• borium

From Dutch boren.

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

1. to drill

• IPA^(key): /boːr/

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• Hyphenation: boor
• Rhymes: -oːr

From Middle Dutch bore.

boor f (plural boren, diminutive boortje n)

1. drill

• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
• → Aukan: boo
• → Caribbean Hindustani: boro
• → Caribbean Javanese: bur
• → Indonesian: bor
• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • → Saramaccan: bolú

Dutchification of borium.

boor n (uncountable)

1. boron

• borium

• boorwater
• boorzalf
• boorzuur

• borax

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

boor

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

boor (genitive boori, partitive boori)

1. boron

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

boor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of boō

boor

1. Alternative form of bor

boor (plural booth)

1. goat

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎, 2005

boor

1. indefinite plural of boa

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

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.

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 27