boar C2 Topic:Animals US /boɹ/ UK /bɔː(ɹ)/ See IPA manual Homophones bore /boɹ/ Freq #11147 Meanings 1 noun A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig. And drivers on local roads have encountered traveling boars, which can run at up to 30 miles an hour, according to one local resident, who said a friend’s car collided with a 132-pound animal, totaling the vehicle, as well as killing the boar. 2 noun A male pig. "Bull hogs," or boars, which are uncastrated male pigs, tend to have a dark, gamy flesh not appreciated by everyone. 3 noun an uncastrated male hog 4 noun Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come Thesaurus Word family Derived forms barlingboar-spearboarfishboarhideboarhoundboarishboarlikehedgy-boarwereboar Related forms hogpigswine Common collocations wild boar Adjective + noun Etymology From Middle English bor, boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair. Topics Animals External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # boar **Type:** Word **Level:** C2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /boɹ/ **IPA (UK):** /bɔː(ɹ)/ **Frequency rank:** 11147 ## Meanings 1. A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig. 2. A male pig. 3. an uncastrated male hog 4. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come ## Examples - And drivers on local roads have encountered traveling boars, which can run at up to 30 miles an hour, according to one local resident, who said a friend’s car collided with a 132-pound animal, totaling the vehicle, as well as killing the boar. - "Bull hogs," or boars, which are uncastrated male pigs, tend to have a dark, gamy flesh not appreciated by everyone. ## Derived Forms - barling - boar-spear - boarfish - boarhide - boarhound - boarish - boarlike - hedgy-boar - wereboar ## Related Forms - hog - pig - swine ## Etymology From Middle English bor, boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair. ## Topics - Animals markdown