boopic (boopik)

[ (a sense more definitely expre ed by the AS. neáh - gebür, 'nigh-dweller,' neighbor: see neigh bor), E. bower, a dwelling: see bower1. The forms, as those of others from the same root (AS. buan, dwell, etc.), are somewhat confused in the several languages. See bower1, bowerő, bowers, etc., and neighbor.] 1. A countryman; a peasant; a rustic; a clown; particularly, a Dutch or German peasant. Knave meant once no more than lad; villain than peasant; a boor was only a farmer; a varlet was but a serving-man;.. a churl but a strong fellow. Abp. Trench, Study of Words, p. 56. There were others, the boors , who seem to have had no land of their own, but worked on the lord's private land like the laborers of to-day. J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 316.