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单词 boorish
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boorishadj.n.

Brit. /ˈbʊərɪʃ/, /ˈbɔːrɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈbʊrɪʃ/
Forms: see boor n. and -ish suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: boor n., -ish suffix1.
Etymology: < boor n. + -ish suffix1.Compare Dutch boers characteristic of a peasant (1548), rude, loutish (c1560), Middle Low German būresch, būrisch, būrsch oafish, rude, coarse, Middle High German biurisch characteristic of a peasant, oafish, rude, coarse (German bäurisch oafish, rude, coarse).
A. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a boor or peasant; esp. rude, coarse; lacking in culture or refinement; ill-mannered, loutish.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined
boistousc1300
untheweda1325
uplandisha1387
unaffiled1390
rudea1393
knavishc1405
peoplisha1425
clubbedc1440
blunt1477
lob?1507
robust1511
borel1513
carterly1519
clubbish1530
rough?1531
rustical?1532
incondite1539
agrestc1550
rusticc1550
brute1555
lobcocka1556
loutisha1556
carterlike1561
boorish1562
ruggedc1565
lobbish1567
loutlike1567
sowish1570
clownish1581
unrefined1582
impolished1583
homespun1590
transalpinea1592
swaddish1593
unpolished1594
untutored1595
swabberly1596
tartarous1602
porterly1603
lobcocked1606
lob-like1606
cluster-fisted1611
agrestic1617
inurbane1623
unelevated1627
incult1628
unbrushed1640
vulgar1643
unhewed1644
unsmooth1648
hirsute1658
loutardly1658
unhewn1659
roughsome?c1660
sordid1668
inhumanea1680
coarse1699
brutal1709
ramgunshoch1721
tramontane1740
uncouth1740
no-nationa1756
unurbane1760
turnipy1792
rudas1802
common1804
cubbish1819
clodhopping1828
vulgarian1833
cloddish1844
unkempt1846
bush1851
vulgarish1860
rodney1866
crude1876
ignorant1886
yobby1910
nekulturny1932
oikish1959
yobbish1966
ocker1972
down and dirty1977
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 51 Horehounde..groweth..in suche places as the bourishe wormwod groweth.
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. K4v Thus endeth my tale, his boorish lust was glutted, his beastly desire satisfied.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Trag. Barnavelt (1980) i. i. 2 With a boorish patience suffer the Harvest that I labord for, to be anothers spoile.
1660 S. Pepys Diary 19 May (1970) I. 149 Many Duch boores eating of fish in a boorish manner.
1697 J. Dryden Ded. Ld. Clifford in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. A2 The Boorish Dialect of Theocritus has a secret charm in it.
1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xlvi. 245 You are the first..that ever call'd Oxford a boorish, uncivilized place.
1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. v. 24 They expressed the utmost concern and disgust at the boorish demeanour of his companion.
1822 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 53 103 The misery..and barbarization of the boorish classes.
1866 H. B. Stowe Little Foxes 105 Comparing..a polished rascal with a boorish good man.
1901 Amer. Hist. Rev. 6 235 A feeble-minded, self-opinionated, boorish monarch, whom profligacy and conceit alone swayed.
1952 M. Kennedy Troy Chimneys (1985) 40 A fellow who never gets about..will contract a boorish suspicion of anyone who knows more than he does.
1978 S. J. Perelman Let. 17 July in Don't tread on Me (1987) 343 I am in receipt of your boorish little note in which you dub me ‘an alte knacker’.
2002 P. Collins Men from Boys 123 He was no public speaker at the best of times but, half cut, he was boorish and puerile.
B. n.
1. humorous. With the. The language of a boor or peasant; uncultured or unrefined speech. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > vulgar language
boorisha1616
pewter language1615
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. i. 47 You Clowne..leaue the societie: which in the boorish, is companie, of this female. View more context for this quotation
2. With the and plural agreement. Boorish, rude, or unrefined people as a class.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person > collective, condition, or estate of
clownship1606
boorish1794
yahoodom1890
muckerdom1893
ockerdom1974
1794 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor III. vii. 127 Confining myself to the society of the illiterate, the boorish, and the brutal.
1853 N. Brit. Rev. Aug. 176/1 Law and order,..though they may impose intolerable burthens on the disaffected and the boorish, [etc.].
1884 Universalist Q. & Gen. Rev. July 234 Christianity is adapted to all classes of men,..the boorish and the refined, the ignorant and the learned.
1911 Trade 3 May 24/2 Most of the boorish are so from ignorance rather than from malice or intended ill manners.
1981 N.Y. Jewish Week 15 Mar. 31 I like..all kinds of Jews—the religious and irreligious, the committed and uncommitted, the learned and the boorish.
2014 Nelson (N.Z.) Mail (Nexis) 24 Nov. 9 All the rates money that the grumpy and boorish might say is squandered every year on Arts Festivals.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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