different between boor vs dill

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *b?raz (“dweller, inhabitant”). Doublet of Boer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??/
  • (cure–force merger) IPA^(key): /b??/
• (General American) enPR: bo?or, IPA^(key): /b??/
  • (cure–force merger) IPA^(key): /b??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: Boer, boar (cure–force merger), bore (cure–force merger), Bohr (cure–force merger)

Noun

boor (plural boors)

1. A peasant.
2. A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
3. A yokel, country bumpkin.
4. An uncultured person.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale V.ii.155

     Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and franklins say it, I'll swear it.

   • 1905, Edmund Selous, The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands, p. 107 :

     I question if any man ever saw his absent friend more clearly than did Shakespeare his Falstaff, for instance, or Scott his Balfour of Burleigh. But does it, therefore, follow that either of these great writers would, when hungry, have summoned up before him a clearer picture of his approaching dinner, than does the equally hungry or very much hungrier boor? This I doubt; and on the same principle I doubt if the said boor would see his dinner more clearly than a wolf, bear, or tiger would theirs when in quest of it.

Related terms

• boorish
• boorishly
• boorishness

Translations

References

Anagrams

• -boro, Boro, OBOR, boro, boro-, broo, robo-

Afar

Etymology

From French port.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bo??/

Noun

bóor m 

1. port, harbour

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 52

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??r/

Etymology 1

From Dutch boor, from Middle Dutch bore

Noun

boor (plural bore, diminutive boortjie)

1. drill

Etymology 2

From Dutch boor, from borium

Noun

boor (uncountable)

1. boron

Synonyms

• borium

Etymology 3

From Dutch boren

Verb

boor (present boor, present participle borende, past participle geboor)

1. to drill

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo?r/
• Hyphenation: boor
• Rhymes: -o?r

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bore.

Noun

boor f (plural boren, diminutive boortje n)

1. drill

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: boor
• ? Indonesian: bor

Etymology 2

Dutchification of borium.

Noun

boor n (uncountable)

1. boron

Synonyms

• borium

Derived terms

• boorwater
• boorzalf
• boorzuur

Related terms

• borax

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

boor

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

Estonian

Noun

boor (genitive boori, partitive boori)

1. boron

Declension

Latin

Verb

boor

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

Middle English

Noun

boor

1. Alternative form of bor

Swedish

Noun

boor

1. indefinite plural of boa

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English povre.

Adjective

boor

1. poor

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/
• Rhymes: -?l

Wikispecies

Etymology 1

From Middle English dile, from Old English dile (“dill, anise”); from Proto-Germanic *dilja-, of uncertain, probably non-Indo-European origin, possibly a west European substrate.

Cognate with Old Saxon dilli, Dutch dille, Swedish dill, German Dill.

Noun

dill (countable and uncountable, plural dills)

1. Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.
2. A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring

   Synonym: dill pickle

3. (informal) a fool.
   • 2016, Robert G. Barrett, And De Fun Don't Done: A Les Norton Novel

     He could go over and monster his way among the poms, but he was that drunk he'd probably only make a dill of himself

Synonyms

• (herb): anet, dillseed, Peucedanum graveolens
• (type of pickle): dill pickle

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

dill (third-person singular simple present dills, present participle dilling, simple past and past participle dilled)

1. To cook or flavor with dill

See also

• cornichon
• cucumber
• gherkin
• graveolens
• pickled cucumber
• pickle

Etymology 2

Variant of dull

Verb

dill (third-person singular simple present dills, present participle dilling, simple past and past participle dilled)

1. To still; to assuage; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.

References

Further reading

• dill at OneLook Dictionary Search
• dill in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• dill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Anethum graveolens on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Anethum graveolens on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse dylja, from Proto-Germanic *dilja-, of uncertain, non-Indo-European origin, possibly a substrate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

dill n (genitive singular dills, no plural)

1. dill (Anethum graveolens)

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish dil, from Old Norse dylja, from Proto-Germanic *dilja-, of uncertain, non-Indo-European origin, possibly a substrate.

Pronunciation

Noun

dill c (uncountable)

1. the herb dill

Declension

Westrobothnian

Alternative forms

• dell
• del
• dil
• dl

Etymology

From Old Norse til, from Proto-Germanic *tila- (“goal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /del/, /d?l/

  Rhymes: -el, -?l

Particle

dill

1. Used to indicate the infinitive form of a verb; compare English to.

Preposition

dill

1. to (indicating destination)

Adverb

dill

1. another, one more

Derived terms