Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- the uncastrated male swine.
- wild boar.
adjective
- South Midland and Southern U.S. (of animals) male, especially full-grown: a boar cat.
noun
- an uncastrated male pig
- See wild boar
Old English bar “boar,” from West Germanic *bairaz (cf. Old Saxon ber, Dutch beer, Old High German ber), of unknown origin with no cognates outside West Germanic. Applied in Middle English to persons of boar-like character.