Boor

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  • noun. A person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement.
  • noun. A peasant.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A countryman; a peasant; a rustic; a clown; particularly, a Dutch or German peasant.
  • noun. Hence One who is rude in manners, or illiterate; a clown; a clownish person.
  • noun. [capitalized] Same as Boer.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.
  • noun. A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.
  • noun. A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A peasant.
  • noun. A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent
  • noun. A yokel, country bumpkin,
  • noun. An uncultured person
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
    • Word Usage
    "It's a reversal of the premise of "Amadeus," in which the boor is the genius and the court favorite a composer possessing more in the way of political skill than musical gifts."
    cross-reference
    rustic  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    disagreeable person  unpleasant person  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baldur  Bloor  Moor  Moore  Muir  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    brute  buffoon  buffoonery  bully  bumpkin  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Babbitt  Philistine  arriviste  backwoodsman  barbarian  
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