a. For forms see BOOR. [f. BOOR + -ISH1.] Of or pertaining to boors; rustic, clownish, uncultured, rude, coarse, ill-mannered.

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1562.  Turner, Herbal, II. 51. Horehounde … groweth … in suche places as the bourishe wormwod groweth.

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c. 1620.  [Fletch. & Mass.], Trag. Barnavelt, I. i. in Bullen, O. Pl. (1883), II. 210. With a boorish patience suffer The harvest that I labourd for to be Anothers spoile.

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1660.  Pepys, Diary, 19 May. Many Dutch boors eating of fish in a boorish manner.

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1697.  Dryden, Virg., Ded. The Boorish Dialect of Theocritus has a secret Charm in it.

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1726.  Amherst, Terræ Filius, xlvi. 245. You are the first … that ever call’d Oxford a boorish, uncivilized place.

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1866.  Mrs. Stowe, Lit. Foxes, 105. Comparing … a polished rascal with a boorish good man.

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  † b.  quasi-sb. The boorish: the vernacular of a boor; rude, illiterate speech. humorous. Obs.

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1600.  Shaks., A. Y. L., V. i. 54. You Clowne … leaue the societie: which in the boorish, is companie, of this female.

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