shoat

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
7
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ʃəʊt/

Definition of shoat

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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

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

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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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