Boor
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Boor may refer to:
- boor, a peasantPeasantA peasant is an agricultural worker who generally tend to be poor and homeless-Etymology:The word is derived from 15th century French païsant meaning one from the pays, or countryside, ultimately from the Latin pagus, or outlying administrative district.- Position in society :Peasants typically...
or uncultured person; one who lacks in education, knowledge, refinement and social graces - Balanda BoorBalanda BoorThe Balanda Boor are an ethnic group numbering 40,000 to 50,000 people living in the South Sudanese states of Western Equatoria and Western Bahr el Ghazal....
, also Boor, an ethnic group in Sudan - Laughing Boor with a Pot of Beer, painting by Isaac van OstadeIsaac van OstadeIsaac van Ostade was a Dutch genre and landscape painter.-Biography:Van Ostade began his studies under his brother, Adriaen, with whom he remained till 1641, when he started his own practice...
- The Boob, an opera by Dominick ArgentoDominick ArgentoDominick Argento is an American composer, best known as a leading composer of lyric opera and choral music...
- The Boor, a play by Anton ChekhovAnton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
- The Boors, an 18th century comedy by Carlo Goldoni
See also
- Bore (disambiguation)
- de BoorDe Boorde Boor may refer to:*Carl R. de Boor , German-American mathematician and professor emeritus**De Boor's algorithm, a fast and numerically stable algorithm for evaluating spline curves in B-spline form...
, surname disambiguation page - BoerBoerBoer is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State,...