a. [f. BOAR sb. + -ISH1.] Of or pertaining to a boar; resembling a boar; sensual; cruel. (As borish was a former spelling of both boarish and boorish, the two were often confounded; and it is hard to say to which word many passages ought to be referred.)
1550. Bale, Apol., 65. Ye beastlye boryshe buggerers.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T., 57 a. Therefore we call a leatcherous person, a boarish companion.
1643. Milton, Divorce, ix. Wks. (1851), 45. A grosse and borish opinion.
1645. Sacred Decretal, 21. His Boarish Tusks, his huge great Iron fangs.
a. 1718. Penn, Life, Wks. 1726, I. 33. To have expected this Boarish Fierceness from the Mayor of London.
1834. J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXXV. 1003. Boarish bristle and leonine hair.
Hence Boarishly adv., Boarishness. (Formerly often confused with boorishly, -ness.)
a. 1563. Becon, Cast. Comfort, Wks. (1844), 558. The wicked papists, which so boarishly sweat to maintain their usurped power.
1682. H. More, Annot. Glanvill’s Lux O., 55. The roughness and boarishness of his style.
