Shoat

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʃəʊt/

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

Alternative forms

• shote

Full definition of shoat

Noun

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

sheepgoat

Noun

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