noun
Meaning 1
A peasant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
boor
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/bʊə/ without the pour–poor merger
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/bɔː/ pour–poor merger, rare
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General-American: bo͝or
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General-American: /bʊɹ/
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/boɹ/ pour–poor merger
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Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /bʉːɹ/
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Ireland: /buːɹ/
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rhymes with -ʊə(ɹ)
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homophone: Boer (one pronunciation)
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homophone: boar (pour–poor merger)
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homophone: bore (pour–poor merger)
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homophone: Bohr (pour–poor merger)
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CMU ARPABET: B UH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A yokel, country bumpkin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
An uncultured person; a vulgarian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: yahoo
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: peasant, barbarian, churl, Goth, tyke, tike
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unpleasant person, disagreeable person
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”). Doublet of bauer, Boer, and bower (“peasant, farmer”). For the meaning development from Proto-Indo-European *bhuH-, compare with other derived from this term Russian обыва́тель (obyvátelʹ, “the average man/citizen, the man in the street, philistine, resident, inhabitant”), Polish bydło (“cattle, rabble”) (whence Russian бы́дло (býdlo, “rabble, uncultured or stupid people, sheeple”)). Compare typologically with pagan (see more).
Across languages
Translations
69 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: селянин (seljanin) — a peasant
- Dutch: boer — a peasant
- French: rustre — a peasant
- Italian: cafone — a peasant
- Italian: bifolco — a peasant
- Italian: becero — a peasant
- Italian: buzzurro — a peasant
- Italian: burino — a peasant
- Romanian: țăran — a peasant
- Spanish: huaso — a peasant
- Turkish: köylü — a peasant
- Bulgarian: бур (bur) — a Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent
- Esperanto: buro — a Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent
- Italian: boero — a Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent
- Polish: Bur — a Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent
- Czech: buran — a yokel
- French: plouc — a yokel
- German: Tölpel — a yokel
- Greek: αγροίκος (agroíkos) — a yokel
- Romanian: țăran — a yokel
- Romanian: bădăran — a yokel
- Romanian: mojic — a yokel
- Spanish: paleto — a yokel
- Bulgarian: грубиян (grubijan) — an uncultured person
- Czech: buran — an uncultured person
- Czech: neotesanec — an uncultured person
- Czech: primitiv — an uncultured person
- Finnish: jyväjemmari — an uncultured person
- Finnish: moukka — an uncultured person
- French: beauf — an uncultured person
- French: mufle — an uncultured person
- French: pignouf — an uncultured person
- French: plouc — an uncultured person
- French: rustre — an uncultured person
- Galician: pailán — an uncultured person
- Galician: pailaroco — an uncultured person
- Galician: paifoco — an uncultured person
- Galician: paiolo — an uncultured person
- Galician: paduán — an uncultured person
- Galician: badoco — an uncultured person
- German: Rüpel — an uncultured person
- Greek: αγροίκος (agroíkos) — an uncultured person
- Irish: abhlóir — an uncultured person
- Irish: amhlán — an uncultured person
- Italian: cafone — an uncultured person
- Latin: rupex — an uncultured person
- Persian: ارنئوت (arna'wt) — an uncultured person
- Polish: prostak — an uncultured person
- Polish: cham — an uncultured person
- Portuguese: rústico — an uncultured person
- Romanian: necioplit — an uncultured person
- Romanian: incult — an uncultured person
- Russian: хам (xam) — an uncultured person
- Russian: ха́мка (xámka) — an uncultured person
- Russian: грубия́н (grubiján) — an uncultured person
- Russian: грубия́нка (grubijánka) — an uncultured person
- Russian: мужи́к (mužík) — an uncultured person
- Spanish: patán — an uncultured person
- Spanish: cateto — an uncultured person
- Spanish: paleto — an uncultured person
- Swedish: tölp — an uncultured person
- Swedish: bonnläpp — an uncultured person
- Turkish: hödük — an uncultured person
- Turkish: kıro — an uncultured person
- Ottoman Turkish: هودوك (hödük) — an uncultured person
- Ottoman Turkish: چوبان (çoban) — an uncultured person
- Volapük: grobälan — an uncultured person
- Volapük: higrobälan — an uncultured person
- Volapük: jigrobälan — an uncultured person