boarn.
/bɔː/, U.S. /bɔr/ a. The male of the swine, whether wild or tame (but uncastrated).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > male
boarc1000
stag1784
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > male > boar (uncastrated)
boarc1000
galta1400
boar-pig1600
bristler1607
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > sus scrofa (wild boar and descendants) > wild boar
evereOE
swineOE
boarc1000
wild boar?c1225
wilrone1508
bush-pig1840
wild pig1840
tusker1859
Captain Cooker1879
c1000 Ælfric Gram. viii. 27 Aper, bar.
a1121 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1086 He forbead þa heortas swylce eac þa baras.
a1300 Havelok 1989 Was neuere bor þat so fauht so he fauht þanne.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 294 Noyther bere, ne bor ne other best wilde.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. lxxxvii. 1237 Þe wilde male swyne ben ycleped bores, apri in latyn.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 55 For my boles & my borez arn bayted & slayne.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. iii. 21 As quhen that the fomy bayr hes bet With his thunderand awfull tuskis gret.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxvii Lette them be bores and sowes all, and no hogges.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) v. ii. 50 Who like a Bore too sauage, doth root vp His Countries peace. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 114 The brisl'd Rage Of Boars . View more context for this quotation
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 114 The old ceremony of serving up the boar's head on Christmas day.
b. The flesh of the animal.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun]
swine flesheOE
porkc1300
baconc1330
brawn1377
pig1381
pork flesh?a1425
boara1475
gricea1475
hog flesh1528
hog meat1573
grunting-peck1699
hog1744
pigmeat1754
a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 147 Venesoun bake, of boor or othur venure.
1878 J. Morley Diderot II. 9 Savoury morsels of venison or boar.
c. spec. wild boar n. usual name of the wild species ( Sus scrofa) found in the forests of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > sus scrofa (wild boar and descendants) > wild boar
evereOE
swineOE
boarc1000
wild boar?c1225
wilrone1508
bush-pig1840
wild pig1840
tusker1859
Captain Cooker1879
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 206 Þe wilde bar ne mei naut buȝen him.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8032 Þat beoð a wilde bar [c1300 Otho bor].
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 6523 As wode as a wild bore.
1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Verres, porcus non castratus: a baire: aper, a wilde baire.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1138 Bristles..that ridge the back Of chaf't wild Boars . View more context for this quotation
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 23 The tame pig..had replaced the wild boar as a common article of food.
d. figurative (or heraldically) applied to persons.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [noun] > person or being
wolfa900
liona1225
wild manc1290
boar1297
fell1340
tiger?a1513
centaur1565
wolver1593
to speak bandog and Bedlam1600
vulture1605
killbuck1612
man-tigera1652
Tartar1669
hyena1671
dragoon1712
vampire1741
Huna1744
panther1868
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > animals
boar1297
leopardc1330
lionc1330
lionceauc1450
unicornc1450
talbot1491
porcupine?a1549
musion1572
tiger1572
lyam-hound1591
coney1598
lioncel1610
lion-leopard1612
lionel1661
marcassin1727
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 133 Cornewailes bor..þat was Kyng Arthure.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. v. 2 In the stie of this most bloudie bore, My sonne George Stanlie is franckt vp in hold. View more context for this quotation
1651 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 122 The Wild Boare of Antichristianity.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
boar-dog n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog > that hunts specific animals
bear dog1616
wolf-dog1652
coney dog1681
foumart-dog?1748
bird dog1755
boar-dog1792
bear hound1807
wolf-hound1823
toller1831
coon-dog1833
pig-dog1845
rat terrier1851
ratter1858
rabbiter1859
squirrel-dog1860
badgerer1876
boar-hound1884
turkey-dog1895
coon hound1920
1792 W. Osbaldiston Brit. Sportsman 431 All dogs whatsoever, even from the terrible Boar-dog to the little Flora, are all one in the first creation.
boar-hound n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog > that hunts specific animals
bear dog1616
wolf-dog1652
coney dog1681
foumart-dog?1748
bird dog1755
boar-dog1792
bear hound1807
wolf-hound1823
toller1831
coon-dog1833
pig-dog1845
rat terrier1851
ratter1858
rabbiter1859
squirrel-dog1860
badgerer1876
boar-hound1884
turkey-dog1895
coon hound1920
1884 A. Brassey in Good Words May 316/1 Close by her was an enormous boarhound.
boar-hunt n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [noun] > pigs
pig hunting1631
boar-hunting1770
pig-hunt1793
pig-sticking1833
boar-hunt1843
pig-stick1906
1843 Mrs. H. Gray Tour Sepul. Etruria iv. 193 There are friezes representing boar-hunts.
boar-hunting n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [noun] > pigs
pig hunting1631
boar-hunting1770
pig-hunt1793
pig-sticking1833
boar-hunt1843
pig-stick1906
1770 W. Hamilton in Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 20 His Sicilian Majesty takes the diversion of boar-hunting.
boar-pig n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > male > boar (uncastrated)
boarc1000
galta1400
boar-pig1600
bristler1607
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 232 Thou horson little tydee Bartholemew borepigge.
1747 Scheme Equip. Men of War 36 A strong, fat, well-grown Boar Pig.
boar-pinner n.
ΚΠ
1845 E. B. Barrett Let. 25 July in Lett. R. Browning & E. B. Barrett (1899) I. 137 All that roughness and rudeness of the sin of the boar-pinner.
boar-skin n.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > skin of pig
hoggerel?c1450
hogskinc1450
boar-skin1686
pigskin?1742
1686 London Gaz. No. 2114/4 A large black Boar Skin, lined with new Canvas.
C2. † boar-cat n. Obsolete a male cat, a tom-cat.† boar-frank n. Obsolete (see quot.). † boar-staff n. Obsolete = (boar-spear n.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > male
Gilbert?a1500
boar-cat1607
ram-cat1672
tomcat1772
tomling1821
Tom1826
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 111 The males will kill the young ones, if they come at them like as the Bore-cats.
1767 T. Bridges Homer Travestie (ed. 2) II. 172 Scratch, and bite, and tear, and kick, Like two boar-cats hung 'cross a stick.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > feeding pigs > fattening pen
boar-frank1880
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [noun] > fattening > enclosure for fattening
frank?a1400
boar-frank1880
1880 J. E. Harting Brit. Animals Extinct i. 96 In olden times the enclosure in which the Boars used to be fattened was termed a ‘Boar-frank.’
Thesaurus »
Categories »
boar's-ears n. [a corruption of bear's ears] a plant = auricula n. 3.
Categories »
boar-seg n. dialect = boar-stag n.
boar's-foot n. a plant, Helleborus viridis (cf. bear's foot n.).
boar-spear n. a spear used in boar-hunting.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > [noun] > spear
boar-spear1465
otter spear1540
boar-staff1579
hunt-spear1594
wolf-spear1823
1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 300 In-primis, a payre brygandyrs, a salet, a bore-spere.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxv. ix. 552 k Nicomenes thrust him through with his borespeare [L. venabulo].
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. iii. 72 Snatching his boar-spear from the wall..Martin Waldeck set forth.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > [noun] > spear
boar-spear1465
otter spear1540
boar-staff1579
hunt-spear1594
wolf-spear1823
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 400 Perswading them to use the pyke and shielde, in steade of their litle target, speare, or borestaffe.
Categories »
boar-stag n. dialect a castrated boar.
boar-thistle n. (?) a corruption of bur thistle, common name of Carduus lanceolatus, the Spear Thistle, also of C. arvensis.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > thistles
thistlec725
carduea1398
wolf's-thistlea1400
cardoona1425
wolf-thistle1526
cotton-thistle1548
gum-thistle1548
oat thistle1548
black chameleon1551
ixia1551
Saint Mary thistle1552
milk thistle1562
cow-thistle1565
bedeguar1578
carline1578
silver thistle1578
white chameleon1578
globe thistle1582
ball thistle1597
down thistle1597
friar's crown1597
lady's thistle1597
gummy thistle1598
man's blood1601
musk thistle1633
melancholy thistle1653
Scotch thistle1660
boar-thistle1714
spear- thistle1753
gentle thistle1760
woolly thistle1760
wool-thistle1769
bur-thistlea1796
Canada thistle1796
pine thistle1807
plume thistle1814
melancholy plume thistle1825
woolly-headed thistle1843
dog thistle1845
dwarf thistle1846
welted thistle1846
pixie glove1858
Mexican thistle1866
Syrian thistle1866
bull thistle1878
fish belly1878
fish-bone-thistle1882
green thistle1882
herringbone thistle1884
Californian thistle1891
winged thistle1915
fish-thistles-
1714 Let. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 29 64 A Thistle call'd the Boar-Thistle; very short and prickly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
† boarv.
Obsolete.
Of swine: To copulate, to be in heat. transitive and intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [verb (intransitive)] > be in heat or copulate
brimc1420
boar1528
brumle1671
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [verb (transitive)] > copulate with
boar1528
brim1552
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. G ij Hogges..that hath nat boorred a sowe.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 676 In yeares that will proue moyst, they will euer be boring.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 670 We in English call it Boaring.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
<
n.c1000
v.1528