boorjoy
UK/ˈbɔːdʒɔɪ/
boorjoy adjective: bourgeois.
Adjective
boorjoy (comparative more boorjoy, superlative most boorjoy)
- Bourgeois.
- …So that was who the sulky bitch was, boorjoy and stuck-up—he'd heard the tale, Alick had sloshed her son down at Gowans.1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite
- Once the thing he referred to as "Boorjoy" civilization was destroyed, there would be no more room for them, but while it lasted he liked having them about.1939, Louis Bromfield, It Takes All Kinds, page 364
Noun
boorjoy (plural boorjoys)
- A bourgeois person; someone who is middle-class and conventional.
- A lot of the Ellam Street boys read Ruskin and catch ideas about beauty which cause a lot of trouble till the girls get hold of them and marry them and turn them into respectable Boorjoys.1944, Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth
- I'm making an effort towards communal life in the Coloured quarters of our great metropolis, a small light in a naughty world. All the boorjoys are very shocked, of course.1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 48
Forms of boorjoy
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more boorjoy |
| superlative | most boorjoy |
| Noun | |
| plural | boorjoys |
Origin of boorjoy
Humorous respelling of bourgeois, as though so pronounced.
Questions about boorjoy
- What does boorjoy mean?
- Boorjoy means bourgeois.
- What part of speech is boorjoy?
- Boorjoy can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce boorjoy?
- Boorjoy is pronounced /ˈbɔːdʒɔɪ/ (UK).
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