(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!
Yokel
Definition:
(n.) A country bumpkin.
Example Sentences:
(1) "No one would vote for them because they were seen as fascist yokels," says Niklas Orrenius, a journalist who has studied the movement for years.
(2) The Brontës are shown, with understated relish, as lonely, half-mad spinsters, surrounded by insufferable yokels and the unmentionable stench of death.
(3) This is not just fashion, this is fashion that tries to appeal to grannies and girls alike; to yuppies and yokels, hipsters and hip-replacements.
(4) When, early in the game, a foul-mouthed minor Russian mafioso named Vlad dismisses Niko as a "yokel", he is not wrong.
(5) In future, for the benefit of we yokels, please refer to the Metropolitan police as being in “that there London”.
(6) Talented young actors who wanted a classical career, but lacked the physical delicacy required of ingénues, used to be warned that Shakespeare had written few roles suited to a blunt woman: they might play Maria the housekeeper in Twelfth Night, yokel Audrey in As You Like It, and – the big threat – the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet.
(7) As leader, he has run his party with Bolshevik efficiency – hammering a caucus perhaps a bit over-laden, by historical standards, with yokels, whackos and chancers, into a wide-eyed, tight-lipped regiment of skittish yes-people.
(8) A charged antipyrine analogue may be useful to determine BBB integrity with concomitant antipyrine characterization of probe efficiency (Yokel et al., 1992, J Pharmacol Toxicol Methods 27:135-142), and may not require another analytical technique.