boar vs boor vs bore
Definitions
noun
- Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States
- an uncastrated male hog
Examples
Jeff, clad in board trunks and a T-shirt, leans back in his chair with the lappie on his, uhhh, lap, and his bare feet up on the desk.
The score may actually have been 32-0, but it seems the scoreboard operator could not keep up.
The Danish Dairy Board and the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Fisheries supported this study.
Definitions
noun
- a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
Examples
I'm not sure the term insufferable boor is quite adequate here, I'm not saying that he's entirely without humor, but it's the sort of humor that is always tempered by a reminder of how much money he has and how he is holding it over his adult children.
Sturges was also quick to spot the feral intensity of Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine's brutal boorishness, using them to give Bad Day At Black Rock its seething core of twisted hatred.
Though he is a boor, that is to be expected, as his father is an enlisted man.
Definitions
verb
- make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
- cause to be bored
noun
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- a person who evokes boredom
- a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
- a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes
Examples
Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that the extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them.
A Scottish moor long bore the reputation for being haunted by a phantom flock of sheep, which were always heard "baaing" plaintively before a big storm.
