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Definition of boor :
1. A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.
2. A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.
3. A rude ill- bred person; one who is clownish in manners.
Synonyms:
rat, lumpkin, back countryman, nipper, clodpole, savage, vulgarian, son of a gun, country bumpkin, heel, scum, crud, sod, cad, bastard, pill, grouch, tiddler, rogue, stinker, creep, pup, cretin, skunk, scumbag, tyke, churl, crank, schmuck, dirtbag, so-and-so, slime, vermin, dog, fink, reptile, crumb, lummox, oaf, yahoo, villain, lubber, rotter, peasant, bounder, skinflint, sleaze, minor, child, snake, toad, hay, good, kid, tike, lout, clown, rat fink, looby, provincial, cur, shaver, small fry, barbarian, yokel, niggard, fry, louse, gaffer, slimeball, rustic, nestling, stinkard, sleazebag, prodigal, misogynist, sleazeball, bucolic, beast, bleeder, clodhopper, crosspatch, blighter, buzzard, swine, varmint, scrooge, scuzzball, youngster, bear, bugger, chuff, Philistine, bumpkin, hick, clod, rube, joker, Goth, hound, grump
slob (part of speech: noun)
Usage examples:
- The most ignorant boor has some conception of his object in living, and definite ideas as to the easiest and wisest way of attaining that object. - "Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold", Mabel Collins.
- Nothing but a boor! - "Hilda Lessways", Arnold Bennett.
- He was behaving like a boor; but it was better that she should think him one. - "Prescott of Saskatchewan", Harold Bindloss.
