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say it: BUUR-ish
boorish is an adjective meaning "ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance". It is pronounced /ˈbʊɹɪʃ/ — BUUR-ish. It carries one recorded sense.
ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
“was boorish and insensitive”
“the loutish manners of a bully”
“her stupid oafish husband”
“aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for boorish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.