boorjoy
English
Etymology
Humorous respelling of bourgeois, as though so pronounced.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɔːdʒɔɪ/
Adjective
boorjoy (comparative more boorjoy, superlative most boorjoy)
- (colloquial, now rare) Bourgeois.
- 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite:
- …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.
- 1939, Louis Bromfield, It Takes All Kinds, page 364:
- 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.
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Noun
boorjoy (plural boorjoys)
- (colloquial, now rare) A bourgeois person; someone who is middle-class and conventional.
- 1944, Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth:
- 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.
- 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 48:
- 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.
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