borer

From bore +‎ -er.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːɹə/

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• (MLE) IPA^(key): /ˈboːɹɐ/
• (US) enPR: bôrʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːɹɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹə(ɹ)

borer (plural borers)

1. A tool used for drilling.
2. (MLE, slang) A knife fit for a stabbing.

   Synonyms: wetter, jook, jooker, chete, ching, ying, rambo, poker, pokey, bassy, shank, nank, splash, splasher, cheffer, cutter

3. A person who bores or drills; a person employed to drill bore holes.
4. A tedious person, who bores others; a bore.
   • 1896, Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard, The Philistine, volume 3, page 21:

     The boree has been heard from frequently since the Renaissance, and his sentiments have undergone little change. The borer hasn't had much to say for himself.

   • 2012, Margaret Atwood, Bodily Harm:

     Rennie was an expert on boredom, having done a piece on it for Pandora's “Relationships” column in which she claimed that there were two people involved in boredom, not just one: the borer and the boree.

5. An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
6. One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
7. A cyclostome, such as a hagfish, which bores into injured, dead, or decaying sea creatures to feed on their flesh.
8. (botany) The penetrating root of a parasitic plant.

• “borer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

borer

1. present of bore

Borrowed from German Bohrer.

• IPA^(key): /bǒːrer/
• Hyphenation: bo‧rer

bórer m inan (Cyrillic spelling бо́рер)

1. drill bit
2. drill

• (drill bit): svrdlo
• (drill): bormašina

• “borer”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025