farrow
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Definition of farrow
5 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A litter of piglets.
“Aha! I know you, gammer! Hamlet, revenge! The old sow that eats her farrow!”
“At full speed he ran into a pigsty, where a sow was lying on her side with a farrow of eleven tugging at her.”
“She is the womb and the tomb: the sow that eats her farrow.”
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noun
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A litter of piglets.
“Aha! I know you, gammer! Hamlet, revenge! The old sow that eats her farrow!”
“At full speed he ran into a pigsty, where a sow was lying on her side with a farrow of eleven tugging at her.”
“She is the womb and the tomb: the sow that eats her farrow.”
verb
- To give birth to (a litter of piglets).
adj
- (not-comparable)Not pregnant; not producing young (not calving) in a given season or year; barren.
name
- (countable, uncountable)A surname.
- (countable, uncountable)A former community in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English *farow, *fargh (found only in the plural faren), from Old English fearh (“piglet”), from Proto-West Germanic *farh, from Proto-Germanic *farhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos, from *perḱ- (“to dig”). See also Old High German farah, Middle Irish orc (“piglet”), Latin porcus, Proto-Slavic *porsę (“pig, piglet”), Lithuanian par̃šas, Avestan: 𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬯𐬀 (pər^əsa). Doublet of pork.
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