boor

英 [b??; b??] 美

暢通詞匯GRE

復數:?boors;

1. 要送愛情的東西，卻送了600 百朵花.
2. 一天送一支太麻煩的，一次送600 支，很粗野的人。

boor 粗魯的人

來自PIE *bheue, 存在，生長，居住，同be. 原指農夫，詞源同husband.

boor: boor: [15] Boor was borrowed into English either from Low German hūr or from Dutch boer (Boer ‘Dutch colonist in South Africa’ is a later, 19thcentury borrowing). When first acquired it meant ‘peasant farmer’, and did not develop its modern explicit connotations of coarseness and rudeness until the 16th century. Its ultimate source was the Germanic base *bū- ‘dwell’, so its original meaning was something like ‘person who lives in a particular place’ (the related neighbour was literally ‘someone who lives nearby’).

Other English words from the same source include be, booth, bound ‘intending to go’, bower, build, burly, byelaw, byre, and the -band of husband.
=> be, boer, booth, bower, build, burly, byelaw, byre, husband, neighbour
boor (n.): 13c., from Old French bovier "herdsman," from Latin bovis, genitive of bos "cow, ox." Re-introduced 16c. from Dutch boer, from Middle Dutch gheboer "fellow dweller," from Proto-Germanic *buram "dweller," especially "farmer," from PIE *bhu-, from root *bheue- (see be). Original meaning was "peasant farmer" (compare German Bauer, Dutch boer, Danish bonde), and in English it was at first applied to agricultural laborers in or from other lands, as opposed to the native yeoman; negative connotation attested by 1560s (in boorish), from notion of clownish rustics. Related: Boorishness.

1. I'm a bit of a boor, so I hope you won't mind if I speak bluntly.: 我是一個粗人,說話直來直去, 你可別見怪.

2. " Oh, the man's impossible -- an ill - bred boor,'said Scarlett.: " 唔, 剛才這個人太差勁 ---- 是個沒教養的東西, "思嘉說.

3. If he fears the intellectual, he despises the boor.: 他對知識分子有戒心, 但是更瞧不起鄉下人.

5. Any boor with a fax machine and your phone number can deluge you with unwanted documents.: 任何粗魯之徒,只要有一臺傳真機和你的電話號碼,就可以連續不斷地向你輸送你根本不需要的材料.