What's the difference between boor and boort?

Boor


Definition:

  • (n.) A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.
  • (n.) A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.
  • (n.) A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Monet, Courbet, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Millet, that boor Cézanne and the even more boorish Picasso and Marinetti (not to mention our own selves, the local boors)."
  • (2) As he itemises the contents of the pawnbroker's shop ("a few old China cups; some modern vases, adorned with paltry paintings of three Spanish cavaliers playing three Spanish guitars; or a party of boors carousing: each boor with one leg painfully elevated in the air by way of expressing his perfect freedom and gaiety …") you sense that Dickens barely knows how to stop.
  • (3) The symbolist writer Merezhkovsky, piqued, had characterised all futurists as boors.
  • (4) The alternative is too terrifying; that mad, flawed, myopic boors are running our clubs.
  • (5) The role of the nurse in giving information to patients has grown considerably following the work of researchers such as Hayward (1975), Boore (1978) and Wilson-Barnett (1978).
  • (6) You don’t talk to them the way Sattler talked to Gillard, unless you want to be quite explicit about the fact that you are a rude, ill-mannered, nasty little boor.
  • (7) But that doesn’t mean he is obliged to lower the tone of a damaged politics still further by pronouncing in the style of a saloon bar boor.
  • (8) Nor are they necessarily so superficial that they can only see him as a loud-mouthed boor.
  • (9) Malevich took up the cudgels: "Boors continue to follow on one after the other and I've lost count of how many there have been in our time!

Boort


Definition:

  • (n.) See Bort.

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