is a familiar term of address to a lad or young man; as, “Well, bor, I saw the mouther you spoke of”—i.e. “Well, sir, I saw the lass… .” “Bor” is the Dutch boer, a farmer; and “mor” the Dutch moer, a female.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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