bore:
(plural: ‘bores‘)
Apart from several other meanings/definitions…
a person who makes others lose interest in him/her by continuous dull talk;
a drag,
a bore (R) boring his listener (L) with his boring talk
e.g.
Our History teacher is a bore.
Nikki sometimes feels that her grandpa is an old bore!
I can’t stand those lectures where a team of bores, the so called lecturers, go on talking one after the other on topics that don’t have any real value or substance.
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