Sekirov Dictionary

boorjoy

/ˈbɔːdʒɔɪ/

adjective 1
noun 1
forms 3

adjective1

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(informal, no longer used) 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

noun1

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(informal, no longer used) 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

forms

boorjoys · more boorjoy · most boorjoy

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