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boar

[bawr, bohr] Example Sentences Origin

boar

[bawr, bohr]
noun
1.
the uncastrated male swine.
adjective
3.
South Midland and Southern U.S. (of animals) male, especially full-grown: a boar cat.

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Origin:
before 1000; Middle English boor, Old English bār; cognate with Dutch beer, Old High German bêr < West Germanic *baira-, perhaps akin to Welsh baedd

boar, Boer, boor, bore.
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Example Sentences
  • It was not really a wild specimen, but was a well-bred boar of superior quality.
  • Dishes include wild boar stew, chickpeas with black butifarra sausage.
  • We can't even get rid of the wild boar populations riddling our country.
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World English Dictionary
boar (bɔː)
 
n
1.  an uncastrated male pig
2.  See wild boar
 
[Old English bār; related to Old High German bēr]

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Word Origin & History

boar
O.E. bar "boar," from W.Gmc. *bairaz (cf. O.S. ber, Du. beer, O.H.G. ber), of unknown origin with no cognates outside W.Gmc. Applied in M.E. to persons of boar-like character.
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Bible Dictionary

Boar definition


occurs only in Ps. 80:13. The same Hebrew word is elsewhere rendered "swine" (Lev. 11:7; Deut. 14:8; Prov. 11:22; Isa. 65:4; 66:3, 17). The Hebrews abhorred swine's flesh, and accordingly none of these animals were reared, except in the district beyond the Sea of Galilee. In the psalm quoted above the powers that destroyed the Jewish nation are compared to wild boars and wild beasts of the field.

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