Meanings
comparative more boorish · superlative most boorish
- Behaving as a boor; rough in manners.
I don't suppose it's remotely possible that you are boorish and dickly, is it?
2000 June 10, “Dr. Laura supports program that pays women $200 to be forever ...”, in alt.radio.talk.dr-laura (Usenet)2 more examples
May Week. . . . As in every year, that infamous week was dragging its boorish heels with remarkable infestivity.
1989, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, Arcade, published 1998, →ISBN, page 256The only real-world effect is that it makes these figures appear boorish and unprofessional to anyone outside the online slopulist echo chamber.
2025 May 2, Endeavour, “Against Slopulism”, in Counter-Currents, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2025Synonyms: rude, uncultured
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveBehaving as a boor; rough in manners.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Czech buranský
- buranskýbehaving as a boor
Finnish moukkamainen
- moukkamainenbehaving as a boor
French grossier
- grossierbehaving as a boor
German ungehobelt, rüpelhaft
- ungehobeltbehaving as a boor
- rüpelhaftbehaving as a boor
- trampeligbehaving as a boor
- ungeschicktbehaving as a boor
Greek αγροίκος
- αγροίκος (agroíkos)behaving as a boor
Hungarian durva, faragatlan
- durvabehaving as a boor
- faragatlanbehaving as a boor
- otrombabehaving as a boor
Indonesian kampungan
- kampunganbehaving as a boor
Irish amhlánta, tútach
- amhlántabehaving as a boor
- tútachbehaving as a boor
Italian zotico, becero
- zoticobehaving as a boor
- becerobehaving as a boor
- grossolanobehaving as a boor
- rozzobehaving as a boor
Korean 촌스러운
- 촌스러운 (chonseureoun)behaving as a boor
Māori tūhourangi
- tūhourangibehaving as a boor
Norwegian ubehøvlet, tverr
- ubehøvletbehaving as a boor
- tverrbehaving as a boor
- trumpetebehaving as a boor
Polish prostacki, chamski
- prostackibehaving as a boor
- chamskibehaving as a boor
- gburowatybehaving as a boor
Portuguese caipira
- caipirabehaving as a boor
Russian гру́бый, ха́мский
- гру́бый (grúbyj)behaving as a boor
- ха́мский (xámskij)behaving as a boor
Spanish zafio, cafre
- zafiobehaving as a boor
- cafrebehaving as a boor
- groserobehaving as a boor
- toscobehaving as a boor
- maleducadobehaving as a boor
- brutobehaving as a boor
- bestiabehaving as a boor
- patánbehaving as a boor
- bordebehaving as a boor
Turkish kaba, görgüsüz
- kababehaving as a boor
- görgüsüzbehaving as a boor
- terbiyesizbehaving as a boor
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Cite this entry
boorish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boorish
“boorish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boorish. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boorish,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boorish.
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