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boor(dictionary)

Typhon (iou) and boor (iou)


Typhon (iou)



Typhon noun2. L16.
[Latin from Greek Tuphon, name of a mythological hundred-headed fire-breathing monster, believed to raise hurricanes and whirlwinds; also, another name for the Egyptian god Set. Cf. TYPHON noun1.]
A fire-breathing monster like Typhon; a powerful or violent person or thing.
Typhonian adjective = TYPHONIC adjective2 M19.

boor (iou)



boor noun. M16.

A husbandman, a peasant; esp. a Dutch, German, or Other foreign peasant. Now rare or obsolete. M16.
boor's mustard [rendering German Bauernsenfe 'peasant's mustard'] field penny cress, Thlaspi arvense.
b. spec. (Boor.) = BOER noun. L18-M19.
A rustic, a yokel; a clumsy or unrefined person; a rude, ill-mannered, inconsiderate person. L16.
boorish adjective of, pertaining to, or characteristic of boors; rude, ill-mannered; coarse, uncultured: M16.
boorishly adverb E17.
boorishness noun L18.