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.
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