▪ I. bor, n. dial.
(bɔː(r))
Also 7 bore, 9 borh, boh, bo'.
[? :—OE. (ᵹe)b{uacu}r as in neighbour. Cf. the similar use of Du. buur: see boor.]
An East Anglian form of address = Neighbour, gossip, etc.
| 1677 A. Yarranton Engl. Improv. 105 Bores, this is the best News that ever I heard. 1830 Forby Norf. & Suffolk Voc. s.v. Borh, Bor, ‘Co' bor, let's go a sticking in the 'Squire's plantations’. ‘Aye, bor, so we will’. 1874 J. Whinbush Tim Digwell 5 Tim, bor, what d'yow think? |
▪ II. bor
obs. f. beer, boar, bower.