different between boer vs hick

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?r/

Etymology 1

From Dutch boer.

Noun

boer (plural boere, diminutive boertjie)

1. A farmer; peasant.
2. (chess) A pawn; least valuable piece in chess.

   Synonym: pion

Descendants

• ? English: Boer

Etymology 2

From Dutch boeren.

Verb

boer (present boer, present participle boerende, past participle geboer)

1. To farm.
2. To continuously encounter someone at a specific place

3. To stay; to sojourn; to linger

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo??r/, [?b?o???]

Etymology 1

From Dutch boer.

Noun

boer c (singular definite boeren, plural indefinite boere)

1. A Boer.

Inflection

Further reading

• boer on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

boer

1. indefinite plural of bo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?r/
• Hyphenation: boer
• Rhymes: -ur

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bure, from Old Dutch *b?r, from Proto-Germanic *b?raz (“dweller, inhabitant”), thus originally the same as modern buur (“neighbour”). The form boer is that of many eastern dialects including Limburgish, where Germanic -?- has been retained as a back vowel. In early modern Dutch these two dialectal forms were adopted as semantically distinguished words. Cognate to Old English b?r, ?eb?r (whence English bower) and Old High German b?r (whence German Bauer).

Noun

boer m (plural boeren, diminutive boertje n, feminine boerin)

1. A (male) farmer, peasant.

   Synonym: bouwman

   Hyponyms: landbouwer, teler, tuinder, veehouder

2. A boor, yokel, ruffian, rustic.
3. (in compounds) A merchant (and sometimes producer) of a certain product group, mainly foods, often named after it, e.g. melkboer 'milkman', groenteboer '(male) greengrocer'
4. A jack (playing card).

Alternative forms

• bouwer

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: boer
  • ? English: Boer
• ? Sranan Tongo: buru
  • ? Dutch: boeroe
• ? English: boor

Etymology 2

Originally onomatopoetic, as is English burp. The perception of farmers (etymology 1) as being mannerless people has probably played a secondary role, too. The same in German Bäuerchen.

Noun

boer m (plural boeren, diminutive boertje n)

1. A belch, a burp.

Derived terms

• boeren

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

boer

1. first-person singular present indicative of boeren
2. imperative of boeren

Anagrams

• bore
• ober

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bo.er/, [?bo?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bo.er/, [?b???r]

Verb

boer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of bo?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Dutch boer

Noun

boer m (definite singular boeren, indefinite plural boere, definite plural boerne)

1. (historical) A Boer.

Related terms

• afrikander

See also

• boar (Nynorsk)

References

• “boer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

boer m (definite singular boeren, indefinite plural boerar, definite plural boerane)

1. form removed by a 1987 spelling decision; superseded by boar

Anagrams

• bore

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?k/
• Homophone: hic
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Hick (“pet form of Richard”).

Noun

hick (plural hicks)

1. (derogatory) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person. [from early 18th c.]

Synonyms

• boer, boor
• country bumpkin
• churl
• hillbilly
• lob
• redneck
• rustic
• yokel

Translations

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

hick (third-person singular simple present hicks, present participle hicking, simple past and past participle hicked)

1. to hiccup

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Luxembourgish

Verb

hick

1. second-person singular imperative of hicken