farrow

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English

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 Dutch var (“male pig; boar”), Old High German farah; also Middle Irish orc (“piglet”), Latin porcus, Proto-Slavic *porsę (“pig, piglet”), Lithuanian par̃šas, Kurdish purs. Doublet of pork.

Pronunciation

Noun

farrow (plural farrows)

  1. A litter of piglets.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC:
      Aha! I know you, gammer! Hamlet, revenge! The old sow that eats her farrow!
    • 1949, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces:
      She is the womb and the tomb: the sow that eats her farrow.

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Verb

farrow (third-person singular simple present farrows, present participle farrowing, simple past and past participle farrowed)

  1. To give birth to (a litter of piglets).

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Adjective

farrow (not comparable)

  1. (of cows) Not pregnant; not producing young (not calving) in a given season or year; barren.

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