shoat
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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃəʊt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - 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
Noun
shoat (plural shoats)
- 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
Translations
A young, newly-weaned pig
Etymology 2
Noun
shoat (plural shoats)
- 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
