单词 | boorish |
释义 | boorishadj.n. 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. 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). < adj.n.1562 |
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