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Boor vs Cretin - What's the difference?

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Boor is a related term of cretin.


As nouns the difference between boor and cretin

is that boor is bear while cretin is idiot, fool, bastard, fuckwit etc.

As an adjective cretin is

stupid; idiotic; foolish etc.

boor

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A peasant.
  • A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent
  • A yokel, country bumpkin,
  • An uncultured person

    • Related terms

    * boorish * boorishly * boorishness

    Anagrams

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    cretin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pathology) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
  • (pejorative) An idiot.
  • * 1969 , Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes
    • When I challenged the symbolism, tried to make the professor consider the book as a piece of realism, he regarded me as if I were an absolute cretin . He got very supercilious and condescending

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * cretinism * cretinize * cretinoid * cretinous

    External links

    * (Cretinism)