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.

Synonyms

lout

rustic

churl

yokel

hick

peasant

barbarian

bumpkin

clown

tyke

simpleton

ignoramus

cad

carl

beast

villager

oaf

Goth

tike

ignorant person

rude fellow

savage

slob

thoughtless

thug

twerp

unsophisticated

vulgarian

yob

country bumpkin

mudlark

animal

🐾

lower class person

awkward

brute

chuff

clodhopper

countryman

fiend

flat

fool

ignorant

kern

loblolly

loon

monkey

🐒

muggins

naive

philistine

pleb

redneck

rube

ruffian

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”)).