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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Boor \Boor\ (b[=oo]r), noun [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.
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
boor
noun: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement [syn: {peasant}, {barbarian}, {churl}, {Goth}, {tyke}, {tike}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "boor": Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, 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, provincial, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rube, ruffian, rustic, slob, slouch, slubberer, swain, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yahoo, yokel
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