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Farrow

//ˈfæɹəʊ// adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not pregnant; not producing young (not calving) in a given season or year; barren. not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A former community in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    A litter of piglets.

    "Aha! I know you, gammer! Hamlet, revenge! The old sow that eats her farrow!"

  2. 2
    the production of a litter of pigs wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To give birth to (a litter of piglets).
  2. 2
    give birth to (piglets) wordnet

Etymology

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”). 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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English farwen, from the noun.

Etymology 3

Cognate with Old English fearr (“bull”).

Etymology 4

Hypercorrected form of Farrar, where the original ending -ar was regarded as an error and consequently changed to -ow.

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