shoat
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Of unknown origin. Perhaps cognate with West Flemish schote ‘young piglet’.
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
shoat (plural shoats)
- A young, newly-weaned pig.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 68:
- Why, was not one animal of every kind – a calf, and a lamb, and a filly, and a shote – upon the place marked with little Moses's own brand?
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
- There would have been nature studies – a tiger pursuing a bird of paradise, a choking snake sheathing whole the flayed trunk of a shoat.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 68:
SynonymsEdit
TranslationsEdit
A young, newly-weaned pig
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
shoat (plural shoats)
- A geep, a sheep-goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating).