请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 farrow
释义

farrown.

Brit. /ˈfarəʊ/, U.S. /ˈfɛroʊ/
Forms: Also Old English faerh, fearh, Middle English far, 1700s–1800s dialect farry. Cf. fare n.2
Etymology: Old English fearh strong masculine corresponding to Old Saxon *farh (whence diminutive Middle Low German ferken , Dutch varken ), Old High German farh , farah (Middle High German varch ; diminutive Old High German farhelîn , Middle High German verkel , modern German ferkel ) < Old Germanic *farho-z boar < pre-Germanic *porkos = Greek πόρκος , Latin porcus : see pork v.
1. A young pig. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > adolescent
farrowa700
puberc1350
adolescent?1440
teen1818
teener1894
post-pubescent1904
teenager1913
tweenie1919
teeny1940
tweenager1949
jean-ager1959
skin1969
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend > close associate or companion
farrowa700
fellowa1225
playferec1225
companiona1325
matec1380
gossea1549
comrade1591
comrado1598
netop1643
butty1791
left bower1829
sidekick1893
side-kicker1894
cobber1895
bredda1969
bredren1980
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > young
farrowa700
grice?c1225
piga1250
hogling1377
porketa1555
porkling1561
porkin1570
swine shoat1581
hog-babe1610
hoglet1611
pigling1612
piggy1625
gruntling1686
porkrel1694
piggy-wiggy1766
griceling1782
boneen1827
slip1832
piglet1839
slip-pig1844
squeaker1861
piggy-wig1870
snork1891
snorker1891
a700 Epinal Gloss. 811 Porcellus, faerh.
a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 321 Porcellus, fearh.
c1300 K. Alis. 2441 Heo..flodeden, so faren in feld.
in extended use.1820 Ld. Byron tr. L. Pulci Morgante Maggiore lxiii Another, to revenge his fellow farrow, Against the giant rush'd.
2. An act or instance of farrowing. [Properly another word; < farrow v.]
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > female > sow > for breeding or pregnant > giving birth
farrow1601
farrowing1607
pigging1607
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 229 One sow may bring at one farrow twenty pigges.
1869 Daily News 8 Dec. Mr. Lynn and his man..proved the dates of the farrows.
3. Hence concrete. A litter of pigs; occasionally in singular (after Shakespeare) with numeral to indicate the number of young.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > young > litter
fare1557
farrow1577
farth1688
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 149v If you wyl haue two farrowes in one yeere.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 671 The Lauinians were much troubled about the signification of such a monstrous farrow.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 81 Powre in Sowes blood, that hath eaten Her nine Farrow . View more context for this quotation
1787 J. Hunter in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 236 In that time she had eight farrows..and had in all seventy-six pigs.
1826 in Sheridaniana 313 A fine Chinese sow and nine farrow.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xvii. 192 Two farrows of pigs ready for the chapman.
4. Of the sow: in or with farrow: with young.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [adjective] > of a sow > pregnant
in or with farrow1577
in pig1886
in-pig1950
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 150 So shall the damme..be sooner with farrowe agayne.
1884 Farm & Home 25 Oct. 275/2 Boars do not usually pay much attention to sows in farrow.

Compounds

General attributive, as farrow-sow.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > female > sow > for breeding or pregnant
brood sow1814
farrow-sow1836
1836 D. B. Edward Hist. Texas v. 79 They have more..milk than they know how to dispose of, except they are well stocked with farrow sows.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust (Boston ed.) I. xxi. 256 She rides upon a farrow-sow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

farrowadj.

Brit. /ˈfarəʊ/, U.S. /ˈfɛroʊ/, Scottish English /ˈfarə/, /ˈfaro/
Forms: Middle English Scottish ferow, 1500s–1700s Scottish furrow, 1600s– farrow.
Etymology: Of unknown derivation; farrow cow corresponds formally to Flemish verwekoe, varwekoe (De Bo), in 16th cent. ‘verrekoe, taura’ (Kilian), which means a cow that has ceased to be capable of producing offspring.
Chiefly Scottish.
Of a cow: That is not with calf (see quots.). Also in to be, go or run farrow. farrow-farrow, barren in two successive seasons.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > [adjective]
unbearingc825
deafc897
westyOE
wastumlessc975
wilderna1050
drya1340
gelda1350
barren1377
unfructuousa1382
poora1387
ungreenc1400
infecundc1420
farrow1494
fruitlessa1513
unfruitful1531
sterile1552
hungry1577
penurious1594
unfertile1596
infertile1598
howling1611
ungenitureda1616
arid1656
infecundous1661
ungendering1706
yeld1721
unproductive1725
infructuose1727
ungenerative1733
fallow1791
nihili-parturient1812
dowf1824
wastec1825
non-productive1830
unreproductive1836
infructuous1860
unvintaged1869
increative1877
ablastemic1881
submarginal1895
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [adjective] > pregnant or near to giving birth > not pregnant or having no calf
calflessa1425
farrow1494
1494 Act. Dom. Conc. 363 Twa ferow ky.
15.. Depredations in Argyll 51 (Jam.) Sex furrow cows.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 173/2 A Farrow Cow is a Cow that gives Milk in the second year after her Calving, having no Calf that year.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iii. iii My faulds contain twice fifteen furrow nowt.
1856 T. Aird Poet. Wks. (new ed.) 193 Farrow, ill-haired, and lean.
1879 Mem. Ochiltree 52 If the same animal had no calf the following year, she was farrow-farrow.
figurative.1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 19 Whatever is big with or positive of eternity, cannot go farrow, or be privative of real entity.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

farrowv.

Brit. /ˈfarəʊ/, U.S. /ˈfɛroʊ/
Forms: Middle English fery, Middle English–1500s Scottish ferrie, (1500s farowe), 1600s–1800s dialect farry, Middle English– farrow. Also Middle English iveruwe, Middle English yvarȝe; and see fare v.2
Etymology: < farrow n.
1. transitive. Of a sow: To bring forth (young).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > produce or bring forth
doeOE
makelOE
to bring forthc1175
farrow?c1225
childc1350
fodmec1390
raise1402
spring?1440
upbringc1440
breed1526
procreate1546
hatch1549
generate1556
product1577
deprompt1586
produce1587
spire1590
sprout1598
represent1601
effer1606
depromea1652
germinate1796
output1858
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [verb (transitive)] > give birth
farrow?c1225
pig1575
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 152 Nu beoð þeose gris ifareȝet.
a1500 Liber Pluscardensis (Marchm.) (1877) I. 285 I sal ger thi sow fery agayn hir wil.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. vi. 72 A grete sow fereit of grysis thretty heid.
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husb. (1623) 126 Many Sowes..will deuoure their Pigges when they haue farro'd them.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 251 A sow..farrowed fifteen pigs at a litter.
1828 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. I. iv. 359 The English sow had farrowed her pigs.
figurative.1823 C. Lamb Let. 6 Jan. (1935) II. 361 If Evelyn could have seen him, he would never have farrowed two such prodigious volumes.
2.
a. intransitive. To produce a litter.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [verb (intransitive)] > give birth
farrow1340
pig?1440
fare1573
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 61 Þe zoȝe huanne hi heþ yuarȝed wel bleþeliche byt men ycloþed mid huyt.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 701 On the wallis thai can cry, ‘That thair sow ferryit [1489 Adv. feryt] wes thair!’
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 342 For that same sow I haif ordand sic draf..Sall gar hir ferrie sone at the midsyde.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. li. 229 Swine..farrow commonly twice a yeere.
?c1640 W. Rowley et al. Witch of Edmonton (1658) v. ii. 58 To cast her Pigs a day before she would have farried.
1709 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon 7 Thought whose Sow had Farrow'd last.
1838–42 T. Arnold Hist. Rome I. i. 2 She laid down and farrowed, and her litter was of thirty young ones.
b. Of other animals. (See also farrowing adj. at Derivatives). Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (intransitive)] > bring forth young
belittera1325
whelp1398
fawn1481
litter1484
kitten1495
kittle1530
yean1548
dam1577
farrow1580
cub1755
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong La Muette..the place where a Hare doth farrow.

Derivatives

Also attributive.
ˈfarrowed adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [adjective] > of a sow > giving or that has given birth
farrowing?1518
farrowed1582
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 56 Her mylckwhit farroed hoglings.
ˈfarrowing adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [adjective] > of a sow > giving or that has given birth
farrowing?1518
farrowed1582
?1518 R. Copland tr. P. Gringore Complaynte them that ben to late Maryed (new ed.) sig. A.iiiv A farowinge bytche.
ˈfarrowing n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > female > sow > for breeding or pregnant > giving birth
farrow1601
farrowing1607
pigging1607
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. lxiii. 1325 Þe bicche hath þikkest mylk, outake hares and sowes, and is most þikke in farowyng tyme.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 149v Her farrowing times are so diuided for the nonce.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 669 Barly..at the farrowing causeth an easie and safe pigging.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.a700adj.1494v.?c1225
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/2/9 14:49:33