Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A young pig just after weaning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
shote .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A young hog. Same as
shote .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
young , newly-weaned pig . - noun A
geep , asheep -goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a young pig
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It appears, by the way, that there is a saying in the Eastern Thorps: I know a shoat from a sheepdog.
Octopus revisited superversive 2008
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The shoat was a large pig now, but travel had kept him thin.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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The shoat was a large pig now, but travel had kept him thin.
Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985
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The shoat was a large pig now, but travel had kept him thin.
Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985
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The shoat was a large pig now, but travel had kept him thin.
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985
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(Oxford English Dictionary) [28.2] A shoat is a weaned pig under a year old.
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Egmont-Lavretzki, who until this had been very successfully imitating now a shoat which is being put into a bag, now the altercation of a cat with a dog, was beginning little by little to wilt and droop.
Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904
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A roasted "shoat" graced each end of the board, a side of bacon the centre, while salted beef, cut in thin slices, with pickles and cheese, constituted the side-dishes.
A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1892
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On a weanling shoat he'd earlier noticed rooting among the fallen apples beneath this favorite of all his trees.
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Pork and pinot is a divine combo, and this biodynamic wine shined with the shoat and its stuffing.
qroqqa commented on the word shoat
There is your dinner, friend, the pork of slaves.
Our fat shoats are all eaten by the suitors
—Fitzgerald's translation of Odyssey book 14
April 11, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word shoat
"Also there were sundry inquiries from private persons, such as the Delacey brothers, Cedric and Fitzroy, who wished to know the plans for the Meeker dogs and a certain Hampshire shoat among the livestock."
Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright, p 202 of the 2002 hardcover edition
July 12, 2011