shoat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʃəʊt/

Etymology 1

Of unknown origin. Perhaps cognate with West Flemish schote ‘young piglet’.

Alternative forms

• shote

Noun

shoat (plural shoats)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• piglet

Translations

A young, newly-weaned pig

• Russian: поросёнок (ru) m (porosjónok)

Etymology 2

Blend of sheep and goat

Noun

shoat (plural shoats)

1. A geep, a sheep-goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating).

Anagrams

• Athos
• has to
• hosta
• oaths