LekhoriLekhoriA peasant.
Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and franklins say it, I’ll swear it.
A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
A yokel, country bumpkin.
Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”). Doublet of bauer, Boer, and bower (“peasant, farmer”). For the meaning development compare with Russian обыва́тель (obyvátelʹ, “the average man/citizen, the man i...
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