Associations to the word «Boorish»

Wiktionary

BOORISH, adjective. Behaving as a boor; rough in manners; rude; uncultured.

Dictionary definition

BOORISH, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats