Boarish

释义 Definition

（形容词）粗鲁的；粗野无礼的；举止像“野猪”般蛮横不雅。常用来形容人的言行缺乏教养、让人不适。（也可引申为“笨拙而粗俗”的风格）

发音 Pronunciation

/ˈbɔːrɪʃ/

例句 Examples

His boarish jokes made everyone uncomfortable.
他那些粗俗无礼的笑话让所有人都很不舒服。

Despite his boarish manners at dinner, she tried to stay polite and change the subject.
尽管他在晚餐时举止粗野无礼，她仍努力保持礼貌并转移话题。

词源 Etymology

“boarish”来自 boar（野猪）+ 形容词后缀 -ish（“像……的；带有……特征的”）。英语里常用动物来比喻人的性格或行为，“boarish”借“野猪”给人粗蛮、缺乏修养的印象，用来形容人的粗鲁与不雅。

相关词 Related Words

• Rude
• Crude
• Vulgar
• Uncouth
• Brusque
• Obnoxious
• Ill-mannered
• Churlish

文学作品 Literary Works

• Middlemarch — George Eliot
• Vanity Fair — William Makepeace Thackeray
• The Pickwick Papers — Charles Dickens