| 释义 |
boorish, a.|ˈbʊərɪʃ|
For forms see boor.
[f. boor + -ish1.]
Of or pertaining to boors; rustic, clownish, uncultured, rude, coarse, ill-mannered.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 51 Horehounde..groweth..in suche places as the bourishe wormwod groweth. c1620[Fletch. & Mass.] Trag. Barnavelt. i. i. in Bullen O. Pl. (1883) II. 210 With a boorish patience suffer The harvest that I labourd for to be Anothers spoile. 1660Pepys Diary 19 May, Many Dutch boors eating of fish in a boorish manner. 1697Dryden Virg. Ded., The Boorish Dialect of Theocritus has a secret Charm in it. 1726Amherst Terræ Fil. xlvi. 245 You are the first..that ever call'd Oxford a boorish, uncivilized place. 1866Mrs. Stowe Lit. Foxes 105 Comparing..a polished rascal with a boorish good man.
†b. quasi-n. the boorish: the vernacular of a boor; rude, illiterate speech. humorous. Obs.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. v. i. 54 You Clowne..leaue the societie: which in the boorish, is companie, of this female. |