shoat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃəʊt/

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• Rhymes: -əʊt

Etymology 1

From Middle English schote, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a special use of Middle English schote (“projectile, young shoot”), or perhaps of Middle Low German origin, 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, published 2005, page 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

• Asturian: marrancín (ast), llavascu (ast)
• Bulgarian: прасенце n (prasence)
• Esperanto: porkido sg
• Hungarian: süldő (hu)
• Romanian: purcel (ro) m, purceluș (ro) m
• Russian: поросёнок (ru) m (porosjónok)

Etymology 2

Blend of sheep +‎ goat.

Noun

shoat (plural shoats)

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

   Synonym: geep

Further reading

• Sheep–goat hybrid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Athos, HATOs, HOTAS, Shota, has to, hoast, hosta, oaths, shota