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Boor   /bʊr/   Listen
noun
Boor  n.  
1.
A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.
2.
A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.
3.
A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.





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"Boor" Quotes from Famous Books



... forget, sir, that you address the king?" she cried. "That you are without honor I have heard men say, and I may truly believe it now that I have seen what manner of man you are. The most lowly-bred boor in all Lutha would not be so ungenerous as to take advantage of his king's helplessness to heap ...
— The Mad King • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... is a very boor blace for zo famous a bainter. I do not understand it! But I have certainly done goot business ...
— If Only etc. • Francis Clement Philips and Augustus Harris
... the O'Valley Leather Works found his solace in tucking the pound-and-a-half spaniel under his arm and trying to convince himself that he was all wrong and a self-made man must keep a watch on himself lest he become a boor! ...
— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley
... mistakes kindness for weakness. You must be firm but just. Now you can see why explorers, upon emerging from long stays in the jungle, appear to be rude and ill-mannered. It is simply because they had to be harsh and at times unfeeling, and it becomes a habit. Stanley, for example, was often called a boor and a brute when in reality he was merely hiding a fine nature behind the armour necessary to resist ...
— An African Adventure • Isaac F. Marcosson
... her eyes in troubled question, "When your cousin Eugenie was here, you remember, she talked about it one day. She said we had no right to let Lynn become so attached to a mere country boy who would grow up a boor. She said he had no education, no breeding, no family, and that Lynn had the right to the best social advantages to be had in the world. She said Lynn was a natural born aristocrat, and that we had a great ...
— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill


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