Meaning of Boor | Babel Free
bʊəDefinitions
Equivalents
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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