boar

Examples

• All

• A wild boar has invaded thy vineyard.

  Luther (2003)

• What you also do not know is that a boar is a male pig.

  Blog text (10)

• Make your shot count, then be ready with the boar spear.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The pig was a seven-hundred-pound boar being used in a film about a bank robbery.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The big boar went back to his old life, eating rich slops and mounting sows.

  Fiction book (2002)

• We agreed to meet at a pub called the Boar's Head just off Shaftesbury Avenue, near the London theater district.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Most farmers do not own a boar (52.4%) and keep 1 to 3 reproductive sows (64.5%).

  Academic text (2018)

• D'Cey limped after the foolhardy canine, keeping the crossbow leveled and the boar spear ready.

  Fiction book (2000)

• In our farm, we have a healthy boar that is used for breeding.

• The boar roamed the fields, searching for food among the tall grass.

Idioms

A

as useless as tits on a boar hog

• Offensive

1 9.9

Something that has no real purpose or value

Compounds

W

wild boar

9 3.4

A large wild pig that lives in forests and has long tusks

B

boar thistle

9.6

A plant from Europe with large prickly flower heads that grows as a weed

Surface Forms

Etymology