farrow
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈfæɹəʊ/ / /ˈfæɹoʊ/ / /ˈfɛɹoʊ/
adj
Etymology: Cognate with Old English fearr (“bull”).
- Not pregnant; not producing young (not calving) in a given season or year; barren.
name
Etymology: Hypercorrected form of Farrar, where the original ending -ar was regarded as an error and consequently changed to -ow.
- A surname.
- A former community in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada.
noun
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.
- 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.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English farwen, from the noun.
- To give birth to (a litter of piglets).