boor

A boor is someone with bad manners.

(noun)

An example of a boor is a drunk man at a party asking personal questions.

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See boor in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

  1. Archaic a peasant or farm worker
  2. a rude, awkward, or ill-mannered person

Origin: Du boer < MDu gheboer, fellow dweller < ghe-, with, co- + bouwen, to build, cultivate; akin to Ger bauer: see bondage

See boor in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement.
  2. A peasant.

Origin:

Origin: Dutch boer

Origin: , from Middle Dutch gheboer; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots

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