Boar Definition

bôr
boars
noun
boars

Wild boar.

Webster's New World
A mature uncastrated male pig.
Webster's New World
The adult male of any of several mammals, such as a badger, raccoon, or guinea pig.
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Other Word Forms of Boar

Noun

Singular:
boar
Plural:
boars

Origin of Boar

  • Middle English boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-Germanic *baizaz (compare Dutch beer, dialectal German Bär), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoidʰ-s-o (compare Lithuanian baĩsas 'terrible apparition', Old Church Slavonic бѣсъ (bĕsĭ) 'demon'), enlargement of *bʰoidʰ-. More at bad.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English bor from Old English bār

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Boar Sentence Examples

  • The wild boar is found in the Delta.

  • The wild boar occurs around Borzhom.

  • You can smooth it with a boar bristle brush using very light pressure.

  • In this role he slays monsters, the boar Twrch Trwyth, the giant of Mont St Michel and the Demon Cat of Losanne (Andre de Coutances tells us that Arthur was really vanquished and carried off by the Cat, but that one durst not tell that tale before Britons!).

  • Unexplained killings are occuring in a small South Korean villiage located in the Jirisan National Park, and a police officer and a detective investigate the killings to find out that it is a man-eating wild boar that is responsible.

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Words Starting With

BBOBOA

Words Ending With

RAROAR

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Words Starting With B and Ending With R

Starts With B & Ends With RStarts With BO & Ends With RStarts With B & Ends With AR

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With B4 Letter Words Ending With R