Noun: farrow
| Singular | farrow |
| Plural | farrows |
Sample Sentences
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Aha! I know you, gammer! Hamlet, revenge! The old sow that eats her farrow! [1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:]
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At full speed he ran into a pigsty, where a sow was lying on her side with a farrow of eleven tugging at her. [1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:]
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She is the womb and the tomb: the sow that eats her farrow. [1949, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces:]
Nouns inflected like farrow
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English *farow, *fargh (found only in the plural faren), from Old English fearh (“piglet”), from Proto-West Germanic *farh, from Proto-Germanic *farhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos, from *perḱ- (“to dig”).
2. See also Old High German farah, Middle Irish orc (“piglet”), Latin porcus, Proto-Slavic *porsę (“pig, piglet”), Lithuanian par̃šas, Avestan: 𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬯𐬀 (pər^əsa). Doublet of pork. See: Old English Nouns '
fearh', Latin Nouns '
porcus'.
Verbs referencing "farrow"
Swedish Nouns
fargalt.