Resembling or characteristic of a bore; tedious, uninteresting, or lacking in liveliness.
From English 'bore' (one who bores or tires) plus the suffix '-ish' (resembling or somewhat like). This informal adjective emerged in English to describe dull or unengaging behavior or character.
The word 'borish' sits in a fascinating semantic space—while we have 'boring' for things, we rarely use 'borish' for people, suggesting our language subtly protects personalities by refusing to make 'bore' into a character trait suffix.
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