marcassin

From French marcassin.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɑːˈkasɪn/

marcassin (plural marcassins)

1. A young wild boar.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 136:

     A fat marcassin to adorn the board.

• “marcassin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Probably from marque, because of their striped coat.

• IPA^(key): /maʁ.ka.sɛ̃/

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marcassin m (plural marcassins)

1. young wild boar, marcassin
   • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 3, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:

     Je n’y avais jamais fait le sanglier le groin dans l’herbe avec elle sous mon ventre, mon marcassin, mimant l’attaque des loups.

     Here, I had never pretended to be a wild boar with my snout in the grass, with her under my belly, my boarlet, miming a wolf attack.

• “marcassin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.