different between boor vs moron
boor
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)
- A peasant.
- A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
- A yokel, country bumpkin.
- 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.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale V.ii.155
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
- 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)
- drill
Etymology 2
From Dutch boor, from borium
Noun
boor (uncountable)
- boron
Synonyms
- borium
Etymology 3
From Dutch boren
Verb
boor (present boor, present participle borende, past participle geboor)
- 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)
- drill
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: boor
- ? Indonesian: bor
Etymology 2
Dutchification of borium.
Noun
boor n (uncountable)
- boron
Synonyms
- borium
Derived terms
- boorwater
- boorzalf
- boorzuur
Related terms
- borax
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
boor
- first-person singular present indicative of boren
- imperative of boren
Estonian
Noun
boor (genitive boori, partitive boori)
- boron
Declension
Latin
Verb
boor
- first-person singular present passive indicative of bo?
Middle English
Noun
boor
- Alternative form of bor
Swedish
Noun
boor
- indefinite plural of boa
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English povre.
Adjective
boor
- 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
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moron
English
Etymology
Coined by psychologist Henry H. Goddard in 1910, from Ancient Greek ????? (m?rós, “foolish, dull”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m????n/
- Rhymes: -????n
Noun
moron (plural morons)
- (informal, derogatory) A stupid person; an idiot; a fool.
- (dated, originally) A person of mild mental subnormality in the former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50–70.
- Synonym: feeble-minded
Usage notes
The current medical term for having an IQ between 50 and 70 is “mild intellectual disability”.
Synonyms
- Thesaurus:fool
- Thesaurus:idiot
Derived terms
- Baltimoron
- moronic
- moronicity
- moronism
- moronocracy
Related terms
- oxymoron
- sophomore
Translations
Further reading
- Moron (psychology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Monro, normo-
Esperanto
Noun
moron
- accusative singular of moro
French
Etymology
From English, from Ancient Greek ????? (m?rós, “foolish, dull”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?.???/
Noun
moron m (plural morons, feminine moronne)
- (Quebec) moron, idiot
Adjective
moron (feminine singular moronne, masculine plural morons, feminine plural moronnes)
- (Quebec, informal) stupid
Middle English
Noun
moron
- Alternative form of morwe
Romanian
Noun
moron m (plural moroni)
- Alternative form of morun
Declension
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mo??on]
- Hyphenation: mo?ron
Adjective
moron (comparative daha moron, superlative en moron)
- fool, stupid, idiot, moronic
Noun
moron (definite accusative moronu, plural moronlar)
- a moron
- Bir morona a??k oldum. — I fell in love with a moron.
Declension
Welsh
Etymology
From Old English moran, plural of more (“edible root, carrot, parsnip”), from Proto-West Germanic *morh?, from Proto-Germanic *murh?, from Proto-Indo-European *mr?k- (“edible herb, root, tuber”).
Noun
moron f pl (singulative moronen)
- carrots
Mutation
Further reading
- "moron" in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru (A Dictionary of the Welsh Language). University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, 2014.
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