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boorish
What does boorish mean?
boorish (adjective): ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
Where does boorish come from?
From boor + -ish.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “boorish” mean?
similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar
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lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age
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ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
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composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous
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