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galoot, Sl. lug, Chiefly Brit. Sl. joskin; bungler, bumbler, fumbler, botcher, blunderer, boggier, Inf. butterfingers, Inf. stumblebum, Inf. duffer, Sl. slob; Philistine, vulgarian, vulgarist, ribald, low or vulgar or ill-bred fellow.
2. rustic, peasant, provincial, country cousin, countryman, farmer, plowman, plowboy, chuff, son or tiller of the soil, swain, kern or kerne, gaffer, hobnail, (in Egypt) fellah, (in Russia) muszhik or moujik or mu-jick or muzjik, (in Spanish America and Southwestern U.S.) peon, Archaic, hind, Often Disparaging, hillbilly, Disparaging, bogtrotter, Fr. Sl. truffe, Inf. chawbacon, Inf. cider squeezer; yokel, bumpkin, country bumpkin, hawbuck, Dial, lumpkin, Sl. hick, Sl. woodhick, Sl. rube, Sl. hayseed, Sl. hoosier.
3. (all of peasants) alien, foreigner, stranger, outsider, outlander, tramontane.
boorish, adj. 1. rude, vulgar, uncouth, coarse, unmannerly, ill-mannered, ill-bred; churlish, brutish, barbaric, crude, crass, base, low, vile, contemptible; loutish, oafish, doltish, cloddish, stolid, clodhopping, gawkish or gawky, lubberly, lumpish, lumpen, clownish, Sl. klutzy.
2. rustic, rural, peasantlike, agrestic, agrarian; pastoral, bucolic, bucolical, sylvan or silvan, Arcadian; inurbane, backwoods, provincial, countrified or coun-tryfied, country-bred, country-born, upcountry, from the sticks, yokelish, Sl. hickish, Sl. rube, Sl. hayseed; homespun, homebred, homey or homy, homely, homelike, homish, down-home, (usu. of thought or philosophy) cracker-barrel, Inf. folksy,
boost, v. 1. lift, raise, raise up, cast up, hoist, heft, thrust up; elevate, exalt, upgrade, aggrandize.
2. promote, support, advance, further, forward, help onward, facilitate; publicize, Sl. plug, advertise, write, up, bring or drag into the limelight; commend, recommend, sanction, back, advocate, put in a good word for, pat on the back; assist, aid, abet, foster, benefit.
3. encourage, enhearten, praise, extol, acclaim, eulogize, laud, speak well of, have or say a good word for; inspire, inspirit, build up, buck up, uplift; animate, fire [s.o.'s] imagination, enliven.
4. increase, hike, inflate, jack up, add to, superadd to; enlarge, make greater, magnify, amplify, heighten. -n. 5. lift, raise, Inf. a leg up, hoist; thrust, heave, push, shove.
6. increase, hike, rise; enlargement, magnification, heightening, expansion.
7. refresher, Inf. pick-me-up, Inf. picker-upper, Inf. upper, Inf. shot in the arm, Inf. ego trip; peptalk, build-up, inspiration, uplifting; encouragement, praise, acclaim, laudation; upgrading, improvement.
8. promotion, support, advancement, furtherance; recommendation, commendation, sanction, backing, pat on the back; publicity, Sl. plug, advertisement, attention, write-up; assistance, aid, abettal.
boot, n. footwear, bootee, Wellington, Brit. Sl. wel-lie; clodhoppers, combat boots, Sl. boondocker, Sl. gunboats; rubber, galosh, mukluk, overshoe,
booth, n. 1. stall, stand, counter, table; compartment, cubicle, cubbyhole, cubby, bay, carrel, carol, cell; closet, room, enclosure.
2. shed, shack, lean-to, hut, outbuilding, outhouse; stable, pen, coop, hutch, cote; tent, awning, tepee, wigwam; shelter, covering, protection, roof,
bootless, adj. vain, unavailing, purposeless, useless, Sisyphean, futile, ineffective, inefficacious; worthless, valueless, nugatory; fatuous, inane, inconsequential; fruitless, unproductive, abortive, barren, effete, sterile, impotent; unprofitable, profitless, gainless, unremu-nerative; unsuccessful, Inf. no-go, to no purpose, to
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