Sc. Obs. Also wolroun, -ronn. [? f. ON. vilr WILL a. + runi boar.] A wild boar.
Used chiefly as a term of abuse.
1508. Dunbar, Tua Mariit Wemen, 90. A waistit wolroun.
1508. Kennedie, Flyting w. Dunbar, 432. Wnhonest wayis all, wolronn, that thou wirkis.
c. 1560. A. Scott, Poems (S.T.S.), xxxiv. 106. The bich the curtyk fannis; The wolf the wilrone vsis.
a. 1568. Bannatyne MS. (Hunter. Club), 385. This wyld wilroun wich thame widlit sa and wareit.
