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A boor is a person — in older use, usually a man — who behaves in a very rude, way, with little care for other people’s feelings or for the small polite things in a room. It is a strong, slightly old-fashioned judgement of manners, not a word for someone who merely had a bad day. Though actually it first meant a farmer or country person, from Dutch (“peasant”). The meaning slid, as words about country people sometimes do, from “not city-polite” to “rude.” Calling a farmer a boor now would be unfair; the insult has moved to behaviour. The South African English word (a farmer of Dutch roots) is the same Dutch word on a different road, and that one stayed closer to “farmer.”
粗人；沒教養的人。
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
boornoun/bʊə/
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A peasant.
- Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and franklins say it, I’ll swear it.
- For all the rich array and goodly port and countenance of Corinius, he seemed but a very boor beside the Lord Brandoch Daha, and dearly did each hate the other.
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A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
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A yokel, country bumpkin.
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An uncultured person; a vulgarian.
- I question if any man ever saw his absent friend more clearly than did Shakespeare his Falstaff, for instance, or Scott his Balfour of Burleigh. But does it, therefore, follow that either of these great writers would, when hungry, have summoned up before him a clearer picture of his approaching dinner, than does the equally hungry or very much hungrier boor? This I doubt; and on the same principle I doubt if the said boor would see his dinner more clearly than a wolf, bear, or tiger would theirs when in quest of it.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。