BOOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boor mean? 

• BOOR (noun)
  The noun BOOR has 1 sense:

1. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

  Familiarity information: BOOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

barbarian; boor; churl; Goth; peasant; tike; tyke

Hypernyms ("boor" is a kind of...):

disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)

 Context examples 

We are about to gain much honor, Sir William, in this enterprise, and it would be a sorry thing if the first blood shed were that of an unworthy boor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An hour later he decided that Brissenden was a boor as well, what of the way he prowled about from one room to another, staring at the pictures or poking his nose into books and magazines he picked up from the table or drew from the shelves.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“I cannot see any fitting mark, for I care not to waste a bolt upon these shields, which a drunken boor could not miss at a village kermesse.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, you do it like a country boor, and not like a gentle squire.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You boor!” she hissed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)