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Boar vs Bora - What's the difference?

boar | bora |

Bora is a anagram of boar.



As nouns the difference between boar and bora

is that boar is a wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig while bora is a initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.

boar

English

(wikipedia boar)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A wild boar (Sus scrofa ), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
  • A male pig.

    • Coordinate terms

    * sow

    Derived terms

    * boar-spear * herd boar

    See also

    * hog * pig * swine

    Anagrams

    * ----

    bora

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * Bora

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.
    • Synonyms
    * burbung

    Quotations

    * 1873, William Ridley, Report on Australian Languages and Traditions,'' in ''The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2 *: Birribirai, a youth not yet admitted to a bora . * 1885, A. L. P. Cameron, Notes on some Tribes of New South Wales,'' in ''The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 14 *: By far the most important among the ceremonies practised by the aborigines of New South Wales is the Bora , at which youths are initiated to manhood...

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps from a dialectal form of (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 650:
    • When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?

    Anagrams

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