farragh

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Etymology

From Middle English *farow (found only in the plural faren), from Old English fearh (piglet), from Proto-West Germanic *farh.

Pronunciation

Noun

farragh

  1. A small cowboy or ploughboy
  2. farrow

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 39