boor : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: boor	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for boor
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
boor n a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement Synonym(s): peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke, tike
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Boor \Boor\, n. [D. boer farmer, boor; akin to AS. geb[?]r countryman, G. bauer; fr. the root of AS. b[?]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. 2. A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer. 3. A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.