Also borism. [f. BORE sb.2 + -ISM.] The characteristic behavior of bores; the practice of being a bore.
1833. M. Scott, Tom Cringle, xvi. (1859), 401. Borism is fast attaining a head it never reached before.
1839. H. L. Anderson, Haileybury Observer, i. 20. An intolerable mixture of impertinence and boreism.
