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Synonyms for boor

  • noun

Most common

peasant rube lout bumpkin caveman clod hopper

All synonyms

Noun

1. Lout

lout, peasant, bumpkin, rube, hick, swain, barbarian, rustic, countryman, country bumpkin informal, gawky, churl, gawk, tyke, goth, lubber, hayseed, lummox informal, bucolic, yokel slang, clown dated, clenchpoop dated

Other

clod hopper, caveman, hill-billy, yahoo

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A peasant.

Related words

Word family
boorish boorishness

Forms

Plural
boors → louts, peasants, bumpkins, rubes…

Example sentences

  • peasant Yidir is a peasant who is well-known in his village.
  • rube When I moved to New York, everyone I met treated me like a rube.
  • lout Trump is a lout, because he talks and acts like a lout.
  • bumpkin Who brought this unpolished country bumpkin?
  • caveman I wonder when a caveman said something like this.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
boorsteady
peasantfalling
ruberising
loutrising
bumpkinrising
cavemanrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
goth1, rube1, hick1, gawk1, lout1, tyke1
5 letters
clown1, yahoo2, swain1, gawky2, yokel2, churl
6 letters
rustic2, lubber2, lummox
7 letters
peasant2, caveman2, bucolic3, bumpkin2, hayseed
9 letters
barbarian4
10 letters
countryman3, clenchpoop

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (yahoo2 = 2 syllables).

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