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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
boor /bɔː, bʊə/

▶noun a rough and bad-mannered person.

– derivatives
boorish adjective,
boorishly adverb,
boorishness noun.

– origin C16: from Low Ger. būr or Du. boer ‘farmer’.

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