boorjoy

comparative more boorjoy · superlative most boorjoy

1. archaiccolloquialBourgeois.

   …So that was who the sulky bitch was, boorjoy and stuck-up—he'd heard the tale, Alick had sloshed her son down at Gowans.

   1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite

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   Once the thing he referred to as "Boorjoy" civilization was destroyed, there would be no more room for them, but while it lasted he liked having them about.

   1939, Louis Bromfield, It Takes All Kinds, page 364

plural boorjoys

1. archaiccolloquialA bourgeois person; someone who is middle-class and conventional.

   I'm making an effort towards communal life in the Coloured quarters of our great metropolis, a small light in a naughty world. All the boorjoys are very shocked, of course.

   1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 48

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   A lot of the Ellam Street boys read Ruskin and catch ideas about beauty which cause a lot of trouble till the girls get hold of them and marry them and turn them into respectable Boorjoys.

   1944, Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth