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boor

N คนชั้นต่ำ  คน หยาบคาย  oaf lout sophisticate kon-chan-tam

 

boorish

A อย่าง คนบ้านนอก  vulgar rude genteel polite

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BOOR

n.A countryman; a peasant; a rustic; a plowman; a clown; hence, one who is rude in manners, and illiterate.

 

BOORISH

a.Clownish; rustic; awkward in manners, and illiterate.

 

BOORISHLY

adv. In a clownish manner.

 

BOORISHNESS

n.Clownishness; rusticity, coarseness of manners.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BOOR

Boor, n. Etym: [D. boer farmer, boor; akin to AS. geb countryman, G.bauer; fr. the root of AS. b 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.

 

BOORISH

BOORISH Boor "ish, a.

 

Defn: Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly. -- Boor "ish *ly, adv. -- Boor "ish *ness, n. Which is in truth a gross and boorish opinion. Milton.

 

BOORT

BOORT Boort, n.

 

Defn: See Bort.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

boor

boor |bo͝or ˈbʊ (ə )r | noun an unrefined, ill-mannered person: at last the big obnoxious boor had been dealt a stunning blow for his uncouth and belligerent manner. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense peasant ): from Low German būr or Dutch boer farmer. Compare with Boer .

 

boorish

boor ish |ˈbo͝oriSH ˈbʊrɪʃ | adjective rough and bad-mannered; coarse: boorish behavior. DERIVATIVES boor ish ly adverb, boor ish ness noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

boor

boor |bɔː, bʊə | noun a rough and bad-mannered person. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense peasant ): from Low German būr or Dutch boer farmer .

 

boorish

boor |ish |ˈbɔːrɪʃ, ˈbʊərɪʃ | adjective rough and bad-mannered; coarse: boorish behaviour. DERIVATIVES boorishly adverb, boorishness noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

boor

boor noun a civilized affair guaranteed to separate the boors from the gentlemen: lout, oaf, ruffian, thug, yahoo, barbarian, Neanderthal, brute, beast, lubber; informal clod, roughneck, troglodyte, knuckle-dragger, pig, peasant.

 

boorish

boorish adjective we will not tolerate such boorish behavior from our officers: coarse, uncouth, rude, ill-bred, ill-mannered, uncivilized, unrefined, rough, thuggish, loutish, oafish, lubberly, lumpen; vulgar, unsavory, gross, brutish, Neanderthal; informal cloddish. ANTONYMS refined.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

boor

boor noun he is such a boor when he is intoxicated: 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; Brit. informal yobbo, yob, chav, lager lout, oik, lump, ape, gorilla; N. Amer. informal lummox; Austral. /NZ informal hoon.

 

boorish

boorish adjective they reproached him for his boorish behaviour: coarse, uncouth, rude, discourteous, impolite, ungentlemanly, unladylike, ill-bred, ill-mannered, churlish, gruff, uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unsophisticated, unrefined, common, rough, thuggish, loutish; crude, vulgar, crass, tasteless, unsavoury, gross, lumpen, brutish, bearish, barbaric, barbarous, Neanderthal, philistine; informal clodhopping, cloddish, slobbish, plebby; Brit. informal yobbish; Austral. /NZ informal ocker. ANTONYMS refined, sophisticated.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

boor

boor /bʊə r /名詞 C 1 ⦅古 ⦆粗野 [がさつ ]な人, 無作法者 ; 田舎者 .2 小作農 .boor ish /bú ə rɪʃ /形容詞 b or ish ly 副詞