Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

farry

/fˈæɹi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.42 in modern English

Syllables: far-ry
IPA: /fˈæɹi/

11

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To farrow; to give birth to a litter of piglets.

name

A surname from Irish.

Example Sentences

"If two sows happen to farry near the same time together and have fourteen pigs, the vicar takes two, without deduction, and if twenty no more."
"I have had the misfortune to lose my sow and eleven small pigs, I tried my best, so did the vetinary sic surgeons but it was no good, you see she has a slight cold and this caused her to farry a month before time."
"Mr. Sadler, of Bentham, about four miles from Cheltenham, had last week a sow which he intended to farry (or pig) before morning – it consequently became necessary that someone should sit up;"

Etymology

Variant of Ferry.

Inflected Forms

farries (present, singular) farrying (participle, present) farried (participle, past) farried (past) Farrys (plural)

Rhymes With

carry barry garry barrie denarii scarry intermarry garey arey clarey charry mccarry

Questions

How do you pronounce farry?: The recorded pronunciation is /fˈæɹi/.
What does farry mean?: To farrow; to give birth to a litter of piglets.
Where does farry come from?: Variant of Ferry.

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