(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!
Caveman
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) For a moment I think some jealous caveman has bludgeoned me with a club but, from my prone position, I can see that there is a nasty rock protrusion at head height.
(2) Wild Words of Sport (@WWofSport) @Simon_Burnton Nadal, with his caveman grunting, his undie-picking, is a visceral beast.
(3) In her essay about trying the Impossible Burger , she talked about her mixed emotion at taking her first bite: “As I took my second and third bites, I started to wonder if eating this Impossible Burger would flip some long repressed caveman switch in my brain, making me crave meat again.” As she pointed out, to make a real dent in cutting our greenhouse gas emissions, we will need McDonald’s to give the meatless burger a shot.
(4) Still, we only manage to get round to a fraction of the carts, missing out the likes of the Cultured Caveman with its paleo-diet offerings or "sweetgeist" merchant Sugar Cube , with its transgressive take on cakes: the "Amy Winehouse" is topped with icing sugar "coke", its chocolate caramel cupcakes are penetrated by salted potato chips.
(5) (Her opening line: "It was like I had been conked over the head by a caveman… ") Not a day goes by, she tells me, without someone asking her about Salinger.
(6) In fact, in her opinion, they just show how easily manipulated some men can be: "To watch Gisele showing clearly that a clever woman can get anything from a man just by behaving in a sexy manner shows a sort of caveman quality that some guys have, and that intelligent women know how to take advantage of it."
(7) A caveman holds in one hand a pot labelled “petrol”, in the other a wooden stick, aflame, labelled “fire”.
(8) You are saying: ‘Your stupid small-minded caveman politics are irrelevant.’” A non-practicing Muslim, she insists her ethnicity is not an issue on the doorstep.
(9) The idea, also called the caveman, hunter-gatherer or paleolithic diet, has been around for decades and is regularly recycled - as it was in various newspapers earlier this week after the regime was discussed at a meeting of the British Society for Allergy, Environmental and Nutritional Medicine.
(10) Inside his van there was a mattress, blankets and baseball bat, according to one former employee, who called Bellfield "an animal" and a "caveman".
(11) It is the politics of the first caveman council where the caveman came out from the council where there had been difficult decisions and pointed with his club across the forest and said: ‘There, over there.
(12) If Donald Trump “didn’t share her last name, it’s fair to wonder which party Ivanka Trump would back in 2016”, wrote Philip Bump in the Washington Post, while Rebecca Traister of New York magazine asked more pointedly: “Why is Ivanka trying to pass off her caveman dad as a paragon of gender equality?
(13) This is said to be true for women in terms of fertility and ovulation, and for everyone in terms of digestion, hence the current popularity of the "Paleo" or "caveman" diet .
(14) Interviewers have variously likened him to a charolais bull, a builders' skip, a circus acrobat holding up the human pyramid, a "runaway truck" of a man, and caveman meets Cary Grant.
(15) "Guys have been putting their dicks in boxes since caveman days."