boor

Meaning

1. A peasant.
2. A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
3. A yokel, country bumpkin.
4. An uncultured person.

Concepts

boor

lout

rustic

churl

hick

yokel

barbarian

peasant

bumpkin

clown

tyke

simpleton

beast

ignoramus

ignorant person

oaf

rude fellow

cad

Goth

tike

carl

villager

animal

monkey

lower class person

fiend

mudlark

slob

vulgarian

chuff

kern

loblolly

loon

savage

twerp

fool

clodhopper

countryman

rube

awkward

ignorant

thoughtless

thug

pleb

yob

philistine

redneck

country bumpkin

naive

unsophisticated

brute

ruffian

flat

muggins

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bʊə/

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”). Doublet of bauer, Boer, and bower (“peasant, farmer”).
For the meaning development compare with Russian обыва́тель (obyvátelʹ, “the average man/citizen, the man in the street, philistine, resident, inhabitant”), Polish bydło (“cattle, rabble”) (whence Russian бы́дло (býdlo, “rabble, uncultured or stupid people, sheeple”)).