Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a boar; resembling a boar; swinish; sensual; cruel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Swinish; brutal; cruel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
swinish ;brutal ;cruel - adjective Because I would not see thy cruel nails / Pluck out his poor old eyes; nor thy fierce sister / In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs. Shakespeare: King Lear, act III, scene vii.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He just shook his boarish head and downed an entire pint of mead in one gulp, never breaking his glare from the walls.
Archive 2009-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2009
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He just shook his boarish head and downed an entire pint of mead in one gulp, never breaking his glare from the walls.
Why I Began the End Megan Arkenberg 2009
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The fences that had kept people penned in remained intact, the cross-shaped corridors that separated the audience into quadrants had not been breached, and the boarish imbeciles still held guns and positions of arbitrary power.
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And when I am despairing, I shall recall these wonderful words of HPL, quoted in the Guardian today: I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales, but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do any thing so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.
Hot 'n Humid K. A. Laity 2005
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The boarish creature ran right into the swarm of bees.
Up In A Heaval Anthony, Piers 2002
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The brandy and water was brought, and Ted making a polite bow to the company, passed down the room with a slight tremor of the hornpipe in his legs, and a faint trill of the tune on his lips, both of which melted gradually into a boarish grunt and roll as he reached the lobby and passed out into the garden.
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They tell us that men are boarish, lust after women while drinking cheap beers, and order endless rounds of pizza without ever developing a gut.
TV Squad 2009
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They tell us that men are boarish, lust after women while drinking cheap beers, and order endless rounds of pizza without ever developing a gut.
TV Squad 2009
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They tell us that men are boarish, lust after women while drinking cheap beers, and order endless rounds of pizza without ever developing a gut.
TV Squad 2009
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They tell us that men are boarish, lust after women while drinking cheap beers, and order endless rounds of pizza without ever developing a gut.
TV Squad 2009
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