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What is a boor?

What is a boor? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A peasant.
  2. A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
  3. A yokel, country bumpkin.
  4. An uncultured person.
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A boor's boor, he spends much of the book mewling about the end of England when he's exactly the sort of person England needs saving from.
His sister is married to a boor whom he has always loathed and suspects she has come to loathe also.
But with every passing week, he continues to carve himself a reputation as a baseball reactionary, a boor and a bore.
He tries to insinuate himself into her world, but she's not interested in a boor who thinks he can buy his way into her circle.
Fans of studio politics everywhere understand that while Harvey's a boor, Bob is merely churlish, and boors hardly ever stand down for churls.
Such rote interpretative strategies betray a lack of imagination, like the cocktail-party boor who laughs at every wisecrack.

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