a. [f. BORE sb.2 + -ISH.] Tedious, wearisome.
1766. H. St. John, Lett., 9 Dec., in Jesse, G. Selwyn, II. 101. It would be vastly too borish in a letter.
1767. J. Crawford, Lett., March, Ibid., 153. He suffered so little during the operation of trepanning that … he felt it quite borish.
1864. Soc. Sc. Rev., 100. When Music and other gentle arts which once cheered him become borish.
