different between weary vs bore

English

Etymology

From Middle English wery, weri, from Old English w?ri?, from Proto-Germanic *w?r?gaz, *w?ragaz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wuurich (“weary, tired”), West Frisian wurch (“tired”), Dutch dialectal wurrig (“exhausted”), Old Saxon w?rig (“weary”), Old High German w?rag, wuarag (“drunken”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?w???i/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /?wi??i/
• Rhymes: -???i
• Hyphenation: wea?ry

Adjective

weary (comparative wearier, superlative weariest)

1. Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene IV:

     I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary.

   • 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Weariness

     [I] am weary, thinking of your task.

   • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

2. Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.

3. Expressive of fatigue.

4. Causing weariness; tiresome.
   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

     There passed a weary time.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fatigued

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

weary (third-person singular simple present wearies, present participle wearying, simple past and past participle wearied)

1. To make or to become weary.
   • 1599, Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, scene iii

     So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, Chapter 4

     Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tire

Derived terms

• unwearied
• unwearying
• weariedly

Translations

See also

• wary

Anagrams

• Erway, Wreay

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /bo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /bo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: boar, Bohr, boor (accents with the pour–poor merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English boren, from Old English borian (“to pierce”), from Proto-Germanic *bur?n?. Compare Danish bore, Norwegian Bokmål bore, Dutch boren, German bohren, Old Norse bora. Cognate with Latin for? (“to bore, to pierce”), Latin feri? (“strike, cut”) and Albanian birë (“hole”). Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; compare German drillen.

Verb

bore (third-person singular simple present bores, present participle boring, simple past and past participle bored)

2. (transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
   • 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences

     […] used to come and bore me at rare intervals.

4. (transitive) To make a hole through something.
5. (intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.

6. (transitive) To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
   • 1862, Thaddeus William Harris, A Treatise on Some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation

     short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore […] a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood

7. (transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
8. (intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.

9. (intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

   • They take their flight […] boring to the west.

10. (of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Crabb to this entry?)

11. (obsolete) To fool; to trick.

Synonyms

• (make a hole through something): see also Thesaurus:make a hole

Antonyms

• interest

Related terms

• (to make a hole): borer
• (to inspire boredom): bored, boredom, boring

Translations

Noun

bore (plural bores)

1. A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
2. The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
3. A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
4. A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
5. One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.

6. Something dull or uninteresting
   • 1871, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks

     It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.

7. Calibre; importance.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:bore

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English *bore, bare, a borrowing from Old Norse bára (“billow, wave”). Cognate with Icelandic bára, Faroese bára.

Noun

bore (plural bores)

1. A sudden and rapid flow of tide occuring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.

Synonyms

• eagre

Translations

Etymology 3

Verb

bore

1. simple past tense of bear
2. (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of bear

Anagrams

• Bero, Boer, Ebor, Ebro, robe

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *b?regos (“morning”). Compare Breton beure, Old Irish báireach and Old Irish bárach, whence i mbáireach and i mbárach (“tomorrow”), modern Irish amáireach (Munster, Connaught) and Irish amárach (Donegal).

Noun

bore m

1. morning

Mutation

Czech

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bor?/
• Rhymes: -or?
• Hyphenation: bo?re

Noun

bore

1. vocative singular of bor ("pine wood"):

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bore

1. vocative singular of bor ("boron"):

Anagrams

• oreb, robe

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

bore

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of boren

Anagrams

• boer, Ebro, robe, ober

French

Etymology

Coined by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard in 1808, from the same root but independently of English boron.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??/

Noun

bore m (uncountable)

1. boron

Further reading

• “bore” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• orbe, robe, robé

Middle English

Etymology 1

A back-formation from boren; reinforced by Old Norse bora.

Alternative forms

• boore

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??r(?)/

Noun

bore (plural bores)

1. A bore, hole, puncture or indentation.
2. A gap, cavity or piercing.
3. (rare, euphemistic) The anus; the asshole.

Descendants

• English: bore
• Scots: bore, boir

References

• “b?re, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.

Etymology 2

Verb

bore

1. Alternative form of boryn

Etymology 3

Noun

bore

1. Alternative form of bor

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse bora

Verb

bore (imperative bor, present tense borer, simple past and past participle bora or boret, present participle borende)

1. to bore or drill (make a hole through something)

Derived terms

• borerigg

References

• “bore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

bore

1. past participle of bera

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *b?regos (“morning”). Compare Breton beure, Old Irish bárach (whence i mbárach (“tomorrow”), modern Irish amáireach and amárach).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?b?r?/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?b?ra/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?bo?r?/, /?b?r?/

Noun

bore m (plural boreau)

1. morning

Derived terms

• bore da (“good morning”)
• bore coffi (“coffee morning”)

Related terms

• yfory

Mutation