marcassin

English

A marcassin.

Etymology

From French marcassin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɑːˈkasɪn/

Noun

marcassin (plural marcassins)

1. A young wild boar.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 136:

     A fat marcassin to adorn the board.

Translations

young wild boar

• Dutch: everjong n, frisling (nl) m
• French: marcassin (fr) m
• German: Frischling (de) m
• Hungarian: vadmalac (hu)
• Italian: cinghialetto m
• Japanese: うりぼう (uribō)
• Polish: warchlak (pl) m
• Spanish: jabato (es) m

References

• “marcassin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Probably from marque, because of their striped coat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʁ.ka.sɛ̃/

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Noun

marcassin m (plural marcassins)

1. young wild boar, marcassin
   • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 3, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:

     Je n’y avais jamais fait le sanglier le groin dans l’herbe avec elle sous mon ventre, mon marcassin, mimant l’attaque des loups.

     Here, I had never pretended to be a wild boar with my snout in the grass, with her under my belly, my boarlet, miming a wolf attack.

Further reading

• “marcassin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.