boorishness

English

Etymology

boorish +‎ -ness

Noun

boorishness (usually uncountable, plural boorishnesses)

1. The state or characteristic of being a boor or of being boorish; boorish behaviour.
   • 1888, George Gissing, chapter 8, in A Life's Morning:

     No refinement in him would now have surprised her; but neither would any outbreak of boorishness.

   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 21, in The Return of Tarzan:

     From the first the Russian had exhibited every trait of his true character—selfishness, boorishness, arrogance, cowardice, and lust.

   • 2009 July 31, “Nevermore With Jeffrey Combs As Edger Allan Poe Taps Every Emotion”, in Beverly Hills Courier, retrieved 17 Aug. 2009:

     Unfortunately, there were moments of pure indulgence, drunken boorishness and rambling unintelligible poetry midway through the evening.

Translations

the state or characteristic of being a boor or of being boorish

• Finnish: moukkamaisuus (fi)
• Irish: amhlántacht f
• Italian: maialata (it) f
• Ottoman Turkish: چوبانلق (çobanlık)
• Polish: chamskość (pl) f, chamstwo (pl) n, grubiaństwo (pl) n, nieokrzesanie n, ordynarność (pl) f, prostactwo (pl) n, wulgarność (pl) f
• Russian: ха́мство (ru) n (xámstvo)
• Telugu: గొల్లతనము (te) (gollatanamu)
• Turkish: görgüsüzlük (tr), kabalık (tr), hödüklük (tr)