boor

Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“dweller, inhabitant”).

• (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.
   • 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, boro, boro-, broo, robo-

boor (plural bore, diminutive boortjie)

1. drill
2. (uncountable) boron

• (chemical element): borium

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

1. to drill

• Rhymes: -oːr

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From Middle Dutch bore.

boor f (plural boren, diminutive boortje n)

1. drill

boor

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

Dutchification of borium.

boor n (uncountable)

1. boron

• borium n

• boorwater n
• boorzalf m
• boorzuur n

• borax n

boor (genitive boori, partitive boori)

1. boron

boor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of boō

boor

1. Alternative form of bor

boor

1. indefinite plural of boa

boor

1. poor