Boor
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Boor \Boor\ (b[=oo]r), n. [D. boer farmer, boor; akin to AS.
geb[=u]r countryman, G. bauer; fr. the root of AS. b[=u]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.
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2. A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist
in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.
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3. A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "boor":
Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, backwoodsman, barbarian, blockhead,
blunderer, blunderhead, boob, botcher, bounder, bourgeois, bucolic,
buffoon, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, cad, churl, clod, clodhopper,
clodknocker, clot, clown, country bumpkin, dolt, epicier, farmer,
fumbler, galoot, gawk, gawky, goop, gowk, groundling, guttersnipe,
hayseed, hick, hillbilly, hooligan, hoyden, ill-bred fellow, klutz,
looby, loon, lout, low fellow, lubber, lummox, mucker,
nouveau riche, oaf, ox, parvenu, peasant, philistine, provincial,
ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rube, ruffian, rustic, slob,
slouch, slubberer, swain, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yahoo,
yokel
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