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单词 boor
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Definition of boor in English:

boor

nounbɔːbʊəbʊr
  • A rough and bad-mannered person.

    at last the big obnoxious boor had been dealt a stunning blow for his uncouth and belligerent manner
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I suppose you have a few groups of such boors you spend time with regularly?
    • When you were the defending champion the next year, you were criticized by the British press for showing up late to a function and acting like a boor.
    • His sister is married to a boor whom he has always loathed and suspects she has come to loathe also.
    • Fans of studio politics everywhere understand that while Harvey's a boor, Bob is merely churlish, and boors hardly ever stand down for churls.
    • Mrs. Wilson wrote our names on her clipboard and told us sharply, ‘We are not a nation of boors.’
    • Joe excepted, the movie industry folks are immoral, money-grabbing, cell-phone-using boors with big paychecks and bad attitudes.
    • And Junior interrupted him, ‘Because we don't like to put up with a bunch of party boors.’
    • The next day, Kate informed David in no uncertain terms that he was an insensitive boor.
    • Then, some sordid boor decided to interrupt the peace.
    • You know, sweetie, people who resort to swearing are boors.
    • He may be a lecher and a boor, but his class is never in question.
    • I don't imagine that I'll ever have the courage to take direct action against these types of boors, but I certainly appreciate those who do.
    • Obviously, a man who makes unwanted contact with a woman is a boor and maybe even a criminal.
    • ‘He's an obnoxious, self-righteous boor who didn't want anyone to ruin his precious ball,’ Violet answered sulkily, idly surveying her fingernails.
    • I almost had him filed under arrogant boor, but then I caught him out being nice.
    • But I call such a man a boor, an illiterate, a savage.
    • Those who are delighted by the cathedral of Chartres and the Meninas of Velasquez may think that those who remain unaffected by these marvels are boors.
    • That's the kind of enthusiast that is being driven into oblivion by self-serving, loudmouth boors who think that they invented the microprocessor.
    • It will save you from being thought an uneducated boor.
    • He tries to insinuate himself into her world, but she's not interested in a boor who thinks he can buy his way into her circle.
    • They see the boor in each of them and they laugh at it.
    • I thought him to be a boor - coarse and crass, involved only in his immediate needs.
    • Adrian is a boor and worse, and Lichi finds refuge at Andrew's place.
    • But with every passing week, he continues to carve himself a reputation as a baseball reactionary, a boor and a bore.
    • I daresay you will roast me as a sexist boor, but there, I've said it.
    • He gushes that millionaires come out of the ranks of undereducated free agents, but I've met a number of them, and sorry, they are, to a person, boors.
    • Such rote interpretative strategies betray a lack of imagination, like the cocktail-party boor who laughs at every wisecrack.
    • It might have been about having a choice between behaving like a sportsman or behaving like a boor and doing the latter because it suited him at the time.
    • And he shows that he can play something other than a loudmouthed boor.
    • Thus, after several months' exposure, the office boor who initially took two weeks to annoy you can accomplish the same feat in only seconds.
    • She was almost certainly better-bred and better-mannered, and equally forthcoming when it came time to put boors in their place.
    • Marler's braying boor is funny but way over the top.
    • The insinuations that he was a cold fish who never talked with players and sometimes conducted himself as a tactless boor are not true.
    • He and those three sons of his are ill-mannered boors, louts and womanizers.
    • In Tampa, players who now are among his best friends once considered him a boor and a punk.
    • Call me irresponsible, call me obsessed, call me a boor.
    • He is a smug, self-pitying boor who turns the caring doctor stereotype on its head.
    • He describes the behavior of these insufferable boors.
    • In the middle of my musings about medieval rapture, I heard a cell phone ring, and a man, who soon turned out to be a big boor, answer it.
    • There are three counts in my indictment: he was a humourless boor, he was the epitome of negativity and his legend far outstrips his actual achievement.
    • Don't become hostile - in addition to looking like a boor you will probably alienate your patients.
    Synonyms
    lout, oaf, ruffian, hooligan, thug, rowdy, bully boy, brawler, rough, churl, lubber, philistine, vulgarian, yahoo, barbarian, Neanderthal, primitive, savage, brute, beast, monster
    Irish bosthoon
    informal clodhopper, clod, tough, toughie, roughneck, peasant, pig, bruiser, hard man
    British informal yobbo, yob, chav, lager lout, oik, lump, ape, gorilla
    North American informal lummox
    Australian/New Zealand informal hoon

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense 'peasant'): from Low German būr or Dutch boer 'farmer'.

  • Before the Norman Conquest a gebūr was a peasant or tenant farmer, and is the source of boor, ‘a rough and bad-mannered person’. The Normans swept away the Anglo-Saxon social structure, and with it the word, until in the mid 16th century English readopted it from related Dutch and German words meaning a peasant or rustic. Much later, in the 19th century, the Dutch word boer gave rise to the Boer farmer of southern Africa. The second part of the word is also found in neighbour—literally a ‘nigh or near boor’ and in use in Old English.

Rhymes

abjure, adjure, allure, amour, assure, Bahawalpur, Borobudur, Cavour, coiffure, conjure, couture, cure, dastur, de nos jours, doublure, dour, embouchure, endure, ensure, enure, gravure, immature, immure, impure, inure, Jaipur, Koh-i-noor, Kultur, liqueur, lure, manure, moor, Moore, Muir, mure, Nagpur, Namur, obscure, parkour, photogravure, plat du jour, Pompadour, procure, pure, rotogravure, Ruhr, Saussure, secure, simon-pure, spoor, Stour, sure, tour, Tours, velour, Yom Kippur, you're
 
 

Definition of boor in US English:

boor

nounbʊrbo͝or
  • An unrefined, ill-mannered person.

    at last the big obnoxious boor had been dealt a stunning blow for his uncouth and belligerent manner
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Marler's braying boor is funny but way over the top.
    • Thus, after several months' exposure, the office boor who initially took two weeks to annoy you can accomplish the same feat in only seconds.
    • It will save you from being thought an uneducated boor.
    • And he shows that he can play something other than a loudmouthed boor.
    • Such rote interpretative strategies betray a lack of imagination, like the cocktail-party boor who laughs at every wisecrack.
    • I almost had him filed under arrogant boor, but then I caught him out being nice.
    • He describes the behavior of these insufferable boors.
    • In Tampa, players who now are among his best friends once considered him a boor and a punk.
    • I don't imagine that I'll ever have the courage to take direct action against these types of boors, but I certainly appreciate those who do.
    • I suppose you have a few groups of such boors you spend time with regularly?
    • Don't become hostile - in addition to looking like a boor you will probably alienate your patients.
    • She was almost certainly better-bred and better-mannered, and equally forthcoming when it came time to put boors in their place.
    • He and those three sons of his are ill-mannered boors, louts and womanizers.
    • ‘He's an obnoxious, self-righteous boor who didn't want anyone to ruin his precious ball,’ Violet answered sulkily, idly surveying her fingernails.
    • The next day, Kate informed David in no uncertain terms that he was an insensitive boor.
    • And Junior interrupted him, ‘Because we don't like to put up with a bunch of party boors.’
    • I daresay you will roast me as a sexist boor, but there, I've said it.
    • His sister is married to a boor whom he has always loathed and suspects she has come to loathe also.
    • Then, some sordid boor decided to interrupt the peace.
    • The insinuations that he was a cold fish who never talked with players and sometimes conducted himself as a tactless boor are not true.
    • Obviously, a man who makes unwanted contact with a woman is a boor and maybe even a criminal.
    • He is a smug, self-pitying boor who turns the caring doctor stereotype on its head.
    • He tries to insinuate himself into her world, but she's not interested in a boor who thinks he can buy his way into her circle.
    • Call me irresponsible, call me obsessed, call me a boor.
    • When you were the defending champion the next year, you were criticized by the British press for showing up late to a function and acting like a boor.
    • Fans of studio politics everywhere understand that while Harvey's a boor, Bob is merely churlish, and boors hardly ever stand down for churls.
    • Those who are delighted by the cathedral of Chartres and the Meninas of Velasquez may think that those who remain unaffected by these marvels are boors.
    • But with every passing week, he continues to carve himself a reputation as a baseball reactionary, a boor and a bore.
    • That's the kind of enthusiast that is being driven into oblivion by self-serving, loudmouth boors who think that they invented the microprocessor.
    • Mrs. Wilson wrote our names on her clipboard and told us sharply, ‘We are not a nation of boors.’
    • In the middle of my musings about medieval rapture, I heard a cell phone ring, and a man, who soon turned out to be a big boor, answer it.
    • But I call such a man a boor, an illiterate, a savage.
    • It might have been about having a choice between behaving like a sportsman or behaving like a boor and doing the latter because it suited him at the time.
    • Adrian is a boor and worse, and Lichi finds refuge at Andrew's place.
    • He gushes that millionaires come out of the ranks of undereducated free agents, but I've met a number of them, and sorry, they are, to a person, boors.
    • Joe excepted, the movie industry folks are immoral, money-grabbing, cell-phone-using boors with big paychecks and bad attitudes.
    • He may be a lecher and a boor, but his class is never in question.
    • I thought him to be a boor - coarse and crass, involved only in his immediate needs.
    • They see the boor in each of them and they laugh at it.
    • There are three counts in my indictment: he was a humourless boor, he was the epitome of negativity and his legend far outstrips his actual achievement.
    • You know, sweetie, people who resort to swearing are boors.
    Synonyms
    lout, oaf, ruffian, hooligan, thug, rowdy, bully boy, brawler, rough, churl, lubber, philistine, vulgarian, yahoo, barbarian, neanderthal, primitive, savage, brute, beast, monster

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘peasant’): from Low German būr or Dutch boer ‘farmer’.

 
 
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