bore – English noun declension

English noun forms of bore

Noun: bore
Singularbore
Pluralbores

Sample Sentences

  • the bore of a cannon
  • the bores of wind-instruments [1631, Francis [Bacon], “II. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, page 53:]
  • The bore times the stroke times the number of cylinders equals displacement.
  • My neighbour is such a bore when he talks about his coin collection.
  • What a bore that movie was! There was no action, and the dialogue was totally uncreative.
  • It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses. [1871, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks:]
  • For having submitted my ears to Acutilius for several days (and I think you know his style), I should scarcely have regarded it as a hardship to write you a letter describing his grumblings after patiently enduring the bore (and it was rather a bore, I can tell you) of hearing them. [1920, Cicero, translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order, volume 1 (hardcover), London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., page 2:]
  • Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *burōną
4. Proto-West Germanic *borōn
5. Old English borian
6. Middle English boren
7. English bore
8. From Middle English boren, from Old English borian (“to pierce”), from Proto-West Germanic *borōn, from Proto-Germanic *burōną.
9. Compare Danish bore, Norwegian Bokmål bore, Dutch boren, German bohren, Old Norse bora. Cognate with Latin forō (“to bore, to pierce”), Latin feriō (“strike, cut”) and Albanian birë (“hole”). Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; compare German drillen. See: Old English Nouns 'borian', German Nouns 'bohren', Old Norse Nouns 'bora', Latin Nouns 'forō', Latin Nouns 'feriō'.