2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Boor \Boor\, n. [D. boer farmer, boor; akin to AS geb?r
countryman, G. bauer; fr the root of AS b?an to inhabit,
and akin to E. bower, be Cf {Neighbor}, {Boer}, and {Big}
to build.]
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
boor
n : a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or
refinement [syn: {peasant}, {barbarian}, {churl}, {Goth},
{tyke}, {tike}]
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