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• A rough and bad-mannered person.

  ‘at last the big obnoxious boor had been dealt a stunning blow for his uncouth and belligerent manner’

  • ‘They see the boor in each of them and they laugh at it.’
  • ‘I daresay you will roast me as a sexist boor, but there, I've said it.’
  • ‘His sister is married to a boor whom he has always loathed and suspects she has come to loathe also.’
  • ‘He and those three sons of his are ill-mannered boors, louts and womanizers.’
  • ‘In Tampa, players who now are among his best friends once considered him a boor and a punk.’
  • ‘There are three counts in my indictment: he was a humourless boor, he was the epitome of negativity and his legend far outstrips his actual achievement.’
  • ‘Call me irresponsible, call me obsessed, call me a boor.’
  • ‘He tries to insinuate himself into her world, but she's not interested in a boor who thinks he can buy his way into her circle.’
  • ‘Those who are delighted by the cathedral of Chartres and the Meninas of Velasquez may think that those who remain unaffected by these marvels are boors.’
  • ‘It might have been about having a choice between behaving like a sportsman or behaving like a boor and doing the latter because it suited him at the time.’
  • ‘That's the kind of enthusiast that is being driven into oblivion by self-serving, loudmouth boors who think that they invented the microprocessor.’
  • ‘And Junior interrupted him, ‘Because we don't like to put up with a bunch of party boors.’’
  • ‘Such rote interpretative strategies betray a lack of imagination, like the cocktail-party boor who laughs at every wisecrack.’
  • ‘The insinuations that he was a cold fish who never talked with players and sometimes conducted himself as a tactless boor are not true.’
  • ‘The next day, Kate informed David in no uncertain terms that he was an insensitive boor.’
  • ‘When you were the defending champion the next year, you were criticized by the British press for showing up late to a function and acting like a boor.’
  • ‘Adrian is a boor and worse, and Lichi finds refuge at Andrew's place.’
  • ‘And he shows that he can play something other than a loudmouthed boor.’
  • ‘I almost had him filed under arrogant boor, but then I caught him out being nice.’
  • ‘He is a smug, self-pitying boor who turns the caring doctor stereotype on its head.’

  lout, oaf, ruffian, hooligan, thug, rowdy, bully boy, brawler, rough, churl, lubber, philistine, vulgarian, yahoo, barbarian, Neanderthal, primitive, savage, brute, beast, monster

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Boorish Definition

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘peasant’): from Low German būr or Dutch boer ‘farmer’.

Boor may refer to:

• boor, a peasant or uncultured person; one who lacks in education, knowledge, refinement and social graces
  • bur, defined by the Rambam (Maimonides). A bur is a person having neither (ethical) Torah education nor virtues of manners (derekh eretz) nor the ability to acquire them. Commonly translated as 'boor'.
• Balanda Boor, also Boor, an ethnic group in South Sudan
• The Boor (play) or The Bear, an 1888 play by Anton Chekhov
• The Boor (opera), a 1968 opera by Ulysses Kay based on Chekhov's play
• The Boor, a 1957 opera, first performed in 2017, by Dominick Argento
• The Boors, an 18th-century comedy by Carlo Goldoni

See also[edit]

Boor

• de Boor, surname disambiguation page

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