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boor
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *b?raz (“dweller, inhabitant”). Doublet of Boer.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b??/
- (cure–force merger) IPA(key): /b??/
- (General American) enPR: bo?or, IPA(key): /b??/
- (cure–force merger) IPA(key): /b??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophones: Boer, boar (cure–force merger), bore (cure–force merger), Bohr (cure–force merger)
Noun
boor (plural boors)
- A peasant.
- A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
- A yokel, country bumpkin.
- An uncultured person.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale V.ii.155
- Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and franklins say it, I'll swear it.
- 1905, Edmund Selous, The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands, p. 107 :
- 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.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale V.ii.155
Related terms
- boorish
- boorishly
- boorishness
Translations
References
Anagrams
- -boro, Boro, OBOR, boro, boro-, broo, robo-
Afar
Etymology
From French port.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bo??/
Noun
bóor m
- port, harbour
References
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 52
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??r/
Etymology 1
From Dutch boor, from Middle Dutch bore
Noun
boor (plural bore, diminutive boortjie)
- drill
Etymology 2
From Dutch boor, from borium
Noun
boor (uncountable)
- boron
Synonyms
- borium
Etymology 3
From Dutch boren
Verb
boor (present boor, present participle borende, past participle geboor)
- to drill
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bo?r/
- Hyphenation: boor
- Rhymes: -o?r
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch bore.
Noun
boor f (plural boren, diminutive boortje n)
- drill
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: boor
- ? Indonesian: bor
Etymology 2
Dutchification of borium.
Noun
boor n (uncountable)
- boron
Synonyms
- borium
Derived terms
- boorwater
- boorzalf
- boorzuur
Related terms
- borax
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
boor
- first-person singular present indicative of boren
- imperative of boren
Estonian
Noun
boor (genitive boori, partitive boori)
- boron
Declension
Latin
Verb
boor
- first-person singular present passive indicative of bo?
Middle English
Noun
boor
- Alternative form of bor
Swedish
Noun
boor
- indefinite plural of boa
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English povre.
Adjective
boor
- poor
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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clod
English
Etymology
From Middle English clod, a late by-form of clot, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“mass, ball, clump”). Compare clot and cloud; cognate to Dutch klodde (“rag”) and kloot (“clod”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kl?d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kl?d/
- Rhymes: -?d, -??d
Noun
clod (plural clods)
- A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), originally published in 1581 by Torquato Tasso, s:Jerusalem Delivered
- clods of blood
- 1903, Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine
- As for yon clod of clay, we will bury it later, lest it should pollute so goodly a pool.
- 1906, Mark Twain, Eve's Diary
- One of the clods took it back of the ear, and it used language. It gave me a thrill, for it was the first time I had ever heard speech, except my own.
- 2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest
- "What a bunch of hooey," I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), originally published in 1581 by Torquato Tasso, s:Jerusalem Delivered
- The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
- 1723, Jonathan Swift, Pethox the Great
- the clod where once their sultan's horse hath trod
- 1723, Jonathan Swift, Pethox the Great
- A stupid person; a dolt.
- 1906, Robert Barr, The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont
- 'What was its number?'
'I don't know, sir.'
'You clod! Why didn't you call one of our men, whoever was nearest, and leave him to shadow the American while you followed the cab?'
- 'What was its number?'
- 1986 February 14, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
- So here's a valentine for you, you insensitive clod!!
- 1998, Chickenpox (episode of South Park TV series)
- Gerald Broflovski: You see Kyle, we humans work as a society, and in order for a society to thrive, we need gods and clods.
- 2015, "Jail Break" (episode of Steven Universe TV series)
- Peridot: Don't touch that! You clods don't know what you're doing!
- 1906, Robert Barr, The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont
- Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
Translations
Verb
clod (third-person singular simple present clods, present participle clodding, simple past and past participle clodded)
- (transitive) To pelt with clods.
- 1906, Mark Twain,Eve's Diary"
- "When I went there yesterday evening in the gloaming it had crept down and was trying to catch the little speckled fishes that play in the pool, and I had to clod it to make it go up the tree again and let them alone."
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jonson to this entry?)
- 1906, Mark Twain,Eve's Diary"
- (transitive, Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
- To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
- 1610, Template:Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph
- Clodded in lumps of clay.
- 1610, Template:Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph
References
clod in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- cold, loc'd
Middle English
Alternative forms
- clodd, clodde, cludde
Etymology
A late by-form of clot of unclear provenance. Compare Old English *clod, a form of clot found in compounds and placenames.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kl?d/
Noun
clod (plural cloddes)
- A clod; a ball of earth or clay.
- (rare) A clot or clump of blood.
- (rare) A shoulder of beef.
Derived terms
- clodred
- clodden
- cloddre
Descendants
- English: clod
- Scots: clod
References
- “clod, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *klutom (“rumour; fame”), from Proto-Indo-European *?lew- (“heard, famous”) (whence also clywed (“to hear”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klo?d/
Noun
clod m (plural clodydd)
- praise, renown, credit
- distinction (in exam results)
Derived terms
- anghlod (“dispraise”)
- canu clodydd (“to sing the praises of”)
- clodfawr (“famous, renowned”)
- clodwiw (“praiseworthy”)
Mutation
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “clod”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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