Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to tease, to mock, to humiliate.

1602		Cromwell iii, 2: One that hath gulled you, that hath bored you, sir [F&H].
1803		‘A Pembrochian’ Gradus ad Cantabrigiam 24: To Bore; to teaze incessantly — to torment — to weary or worry.

2. to have sexual intercourse, either hetero- or homosexual [note 17C SE bore, to run through with a sword].

1660		Wandring Whore I 14: For broaching a belly unwemmed and unboared.
a.1720		‘Young Collin’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) IV 260: Now, now, now I bore, / I Hem when I Cleave, but now I bore.
1763		J. Wilkes Essay on Woman title page: Essay on Woman; By Pego Borewell, Esq; with notes By Rogerus Cunaeus.
a.1796		‘He Till’t & She Till’t’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) II 254: And he bor’d and she roar’d / But they couldna mak a lassie o’t.
c.1800		Burns ‘The Cooper o’ Dundee’ Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 134: The most o’ his trade lay in pleasin’ the fair; / He hoopt them, he coopt them, he bort them, he plugt them.
1838		‘The Brass Founder’s Cock’ Rambler’s Flash Songster 40: A victim to boring, the ladies’ he fell, / And he died with his cock in his hand it is said, sir.
1842		‘Sally May’ Nancy Dawson’s Cabinet of Songs 8: They say she has been bored before.
1870		Cythera’s Hymnal 18: Thy genitals I used to bore / Are clapped.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) III 468: The demon of desire said, ‘It’s fresh, it’s virgin, — bore it, — bung it, — plug it, — stretch it, — split it, — spunk in it’.
1900		‘Boring For Oil’ G. Logsdon Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing (1995) 162: She lifted her garments in fear they might soil, / And she showed me the place to go boring for oil.
c.1925		in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 55: My husband’s a miner, a miner, a miner, / A very fine miner is he. / All day he bores holes, bores holes, bores holes. / At night he comes home and bores me.
1937		Lee Brown ‘Carpenter Man Blues’ 🎵 My auger is gettin’ hot baby, and I’m gonna let you feel the end / As soon as it cool off a little bit, mama, I’m gonna start out borin’ again.
a.1969		‘The Mormon Cowboy’ in G. Logsdon Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing (1995) 40: He wallowed me, and he tumbled me, till he made my limbs all sore, / And to my sad misfortune, his auger wouldn’t bore.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 22: Out to sea, boredom is relieved by boring a bud (short for buddy).

3. to impose one’s views, opinions or simply presence upon those who find them tedious and irritating.

1819		‘One of the Fancy’ Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress 25: While M-RL-Y, that very great Count, stood deploring, / He hadn’t taught GEORGY his new modes of boring.
1880		Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 23 Oct. 10/3: ‘You have bored me for a drink time and again’.

4. (US) to shoot a hole in [note 17C SE bore, to run through with a sword].

1865		H.L. Williams Joaquin 38: Gay row at McNamara’s! Two bored! I’m after the doctor!
1879		A. Pinkerton Reminiscences 150: ‘Why don’t you shoot?’ he howled wildly. ‘Give the “pop” to me; I’ll bore him!’.
1889		S. Bailey Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 29: He advised me to get a gun, as the crooks always call a pistol, and if Jim attempted any more of his funny business, to pull the gun and give him a bluff, or, if necessary, to ‘bore’ him in the leg once.
1894		Mirror of Life 8 Dec. 3/3: ‘Pa won’t hurt you. If he wanted to, he’d bored you the first crack’.
1926		Z. Grey Fighting Caravans (1992) 55: I’d bored the fellar but for Buff upsettin’ him.
1932		Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 244: Look at ’em. I could almost bore one already.
1943		in Best from Yank 8: I could see just about six inches of his rump sticking out and I bored him [HDAS].
1958		Bickham Gunman’s Gamble 6: Man... I thought you was gonna bore me [HDAS].
2022		Digga D. ‘It’s a Gamble’ 🎵 Skum bored my man, I bored him too .