boar

Examples

• All

• This is where I ate roast wild boar with my generals.

  All the Money in the World (2017)

• Taught him how to kill a wild boar with a stick.

  Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)

• A wild boar or just a standard farm pig?

• My father died defending her from a wild boar.

  Die by the Sword (2020)

• We see the camera scan, and we see two large wild boars in a pen.

  Fiction book (2001)

• We're living downwind from a family of wild boars.

  The Flintstones (1994)

• At a small homecoming party thrown by his wife, Burroughs drunkenly proposed the idea of moving to South America... where he could hunt wild boar.

  William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010)

• There was mead and beer to drink, cheese, cabbage, onions, peas, wild boar steaks, and dark pink salmon.

  Fiction book (1994)

• While hiking in the forest, we spotted a wild boar snuffling around for food.

• The hunter tracked the wild boar through the dense underbrush for hours.

Synonyms

W

wild boar

vsboar

9 3.4

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

is a general name that does not stress large size

S

Sus scrofa

vsboar

• Specialized

9.8

A wild pig from Europe, Asia, and North Africa that is the ancestor of most farm pigs

is the everyday common name rather than a scientific label

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