'Boor' definitions:
Definition of 'boor'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Boor'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'boor'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arriviste,
- Babbitt,
- 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,
- philistine,
- provincial,
- ribald,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- rube,
- ruffian,
- rustic,
- slob,
- slouch,
- slubberer,
- swain,
- upstart,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- yahoo,
- yokel