| 单词 | boor |
| 释义 | boor I. 1. 2. 3. a. < a kind of heroic boor devoid of civilized graces and refinements — F.R.Leavis > b. < an ill-mannered boor > Synonyms: < he that is rude to a pretty girl when she offers him wine is too great a boor to understand — Charles Kingsley > < love makes gentlemen even of boors — Henry Adams > churl, orig. a rustic or villein, is now more likely to suggest ill-bred surly meanness in general than that associated with rural backgrounds < magic … that this divine sweet creature could be allied with that old churl — George Meredith > lout is applicable to any crude and hulking oaf, rural or urban < a stupid lout, seemingly a farmer's boy — Sir Walter Scott > clown, orig. a field worker, now suggests ill-bred clumsiness or gaucheness, perhaps laughable < any clown, ignorant of the usages of the house — T.B.Macaulay > bumpkin suggests an awkward, gauche, and naive rustic < awkward lads with shy red faces … poor bumpkins — James Hilton > clodhopper suggests a shambling heaviness and a cloddish lack of information or urbanity < clodhoppers gaping at the stores on Saturday night > hick is a less forceful term for an unsophisticated simple rustic < hicks in the hinterlands disliking city candidates > yokel and rube may suggest either rustic lack of polish or gullible obtuseness < like a listener in a country store to wondrous tales … his mouth was agape in yokel fashion — Stephen Crane > Many of these terms are interchangeable < not worthy to be a knight — a churl, a clown — Alfred Tennyson > < he got off with scorn — he was a hick, a rube …, a rustic, a boor or a hillbilly — Bergen Evans > II. Scotland variant of bower |
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