boar
Americannoun
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an uncastrated male pig
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See wild boar
Etymology
Origin of boar
First recorded before 1000; Middle English boor, Old English bār; cognate with Dutch beer, Old High German bêr, from unattested West Germanic baira-, perhaps akin to Welsh baedd
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