Boor vs. Philistine — What's the Difference?

A rough and bad-mannered person

A member of a people, perhaps of Aegean origin, who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC.

A crude person with rude or clumsy manners

Often philistine A person who is smugly indifferent or hostile to art and culture.

A peasant.

Of or relating to ancient Philistia.

A peasant.

Often philistine Relating to or having the attitudes of a philistine

A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.

(derogatory) A person who is ignorant or uneducated; specifically, a person who lacks appreciation of or is antagonistic towards art or culture, and who has pedestrian tastes.

A yokel, country bumpkin.

(derogatory) Ignorant or uneducated; specifically, lacking appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture, and having pedestrian tastes.

An uncultured person.

A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast region of southern Palestine.

A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.

A bailiff.

A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.

A person deficient in liberal culture and refinement; one without appreciation of the nobler aspirations and sentiments of humanity; one whose scope is limited to selfish and material interests.

A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.

Of or pertaining to the Philistines.

A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

Uncultured; commonplace.

A person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits

A member of an Aegean people who settled ancient philistia around the 12th century BC

Of or relatin to ancient Philistia or the the culture of the Philistines

Smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values