shoat en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ʃəʊt/
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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”).
Meanings
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A weaned piglet; any piglet.
Near-synonym: more at piglet
There would have been nature studies – a tiger pursuing a bird of paradise, a choking snake sheathing whole the flayed trunk of a shoat.
1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita: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?
1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 68:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| shoats | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| shote | alternative | lexicographic |
Hypernyms
suilline · organism · vertebrate · mammal · porcine · suidian · creature · animal
Synonyms
Translations (9)
eu bargo (A young, newly-weaned pig) · ro purceluș (A young, newly-weaned pig) · ro purcel (A young, newly-weaned pig) · hu süldő (A young, newly-weaned pig) · bg прасенце (A young, newly-weaned pig) · eo porkido (A young, newly-weaned pig) · ru поросёнок (A young, newly-weaned pig) · ast llavascu (A young, newly-weaned pig) · ast marrancín (A young, newly-weaned pig)