Meaning of BOORISH
| Pronunciation: | | 'bûrish
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| | Definition: | | [adj] ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" |
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| | Synonyms: | | loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish, swinish, unrefined |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Boor"ish\, a.
Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly. --
{Boor"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Boor"ish*ness}, n.
Which is in truth a gross and boorish opinion.
--Milton.
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| | Related Terms: | | all thumbs, awkward, barbarian, barbaric, blunderheaded, blundering, bucolic, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, caddish, careless, carlish, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, coarse, countrified, country-born, country-bred, crude, cumbersome, farmerish, fingers all thumbs, from the sticks, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hayseed, heavy-handed, hick, hicky, hobnailed, hooliganish, hulking, hulky, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, inconsiderate, inelegant, insensitive, inurbane, left-hand, left-handed, loobyish, loutish, louty, lowbred, lubberly, lumbering, lumpen, lumpish, maladroit, nasty, oafish, offensive, outlandish, ponderous, provincial, raffish, robustious, roughneck, rowdy, rowdyish, rube, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, sloppy, stiff, tactless, tasteless, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unfeminine, ungainly, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unhandy, unladylike, unpoised, unpolished, unrefined, unsolicitous, unwieldy, up-country, vulgar, yokel, yokelish |
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