shoat
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- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 5
Definition of shoat
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A young, newly-weaned pig.
“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?”
“There would have been nature studies – a tiger pursuing a bird of paradise, a choking snake sheathing whole the flayed trunk of a shoat.”
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noun
-
A young, newly-weaned pig.
“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?”
“There would have been nature studies – a tiger pursuing a bird of paradise, a choking snake sheathing whole the flayed trunk of a shoat.”
- A sheep–goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating).
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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”).
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