sb. dial. Also 7 bore, 9 borh, boh, bo’. [? :—OE. (ʓe)búr as in NEIGHBOUR. Cf. the similar use of Du. buur: see BOOR.] An East Anglian form of address = Neighbor, gossip, etc.
1677. Yarranton, Engl. Improv., 105. Bores, this is the best News that ever I heard.
1830. Forby, Norf. & Suffolk Voc., s.v. Borh, Bor, ‘Co’ bor, let’s go a sticking in the ’Squire’s plantations.’ ‘Aye, bor, so we will.’
1874. J. Whinbush, Tim Digwell, 5. Tim, bor, what d’yow think?
