farrow
Plural: farrows
Noun
- the production of a litter of pigs
- A litter of piglets.
Verb
Verb Forms: farrowed, farrowing, farrows
- To give birth to a litter of pigs.
- give birth
- "sows farrow"
- To give birth to (a litter of piglets).
Adj
- Not pregnant; not producing young (not calving) in a given season or year; barren.
Examples
- The word FARROW seemed an odd fit for a Scrabble game, yet it was perfectly valid.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Scrabble Score: 12
farrow: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfarrow: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
farrow: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary