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The expression ''to be a bore'' had been used in print in the sense of "to be tiresome or dull" since 1768 at the latest.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=b&p=27 |title=Online Etymology Dictionary |publisher=Etymonline.com |access-date=2013-12-06 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213061635/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=b&p=27 |archive-date=2013-12-13}}</ref> The expression "boredom" means "state of being bored," 1852, from bore (v.1) + -dom. It also has been employed in a sense "bores as a class" (1883) and "practice of being a bore" (1864, a sense properly belonging to boreism, 1833).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=boredom |title=Online Etymology Dictionary |publisher=Etymonline.com |access-date=2015-12-20 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222163157/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=boredom |archive-date=2015-12-22 }}</ref> The word "bore" as a noun meaning a "thing which causes ennui or annoyance" is attested to since 1778; "of persons by 1812". The noun "bore" comes from the verb "bore", which had the meaning "[to] be tiresome or dull" first attested [in] 1768, a vogue word {{circa|1780}}–81 according to Grose (1785); possibly a figurative extension of "to move forward slowly and persistently, as a [hole-] boring tool does."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=bore |title=Online Etymology Dictionary |publisher=Etymonline.com |access-date=2015-12-20 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222150953/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=bore |archive-date=2015-12-22 }}</ref> A popular misconception is that [[Charles Dickens]] coined the term "boredom" in his work ''[[Bleak House]]'', published in 1853. The word, however, has been attested since at least 1829 in an issue of the publication ''The Albion''.<ref>{{cite web |title=You Didn't Invent That: Charles Dickens and Boredom |url=https://www.dictionary.com/e/charles-dickens-boredom/ |website=Dictionary.com |date=15 December 2015 |access-date=8 April 2021}}</ref>

 

 

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