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, a sheep-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

[Middle English shote, perhaps of Middle Low German origin.]

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

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Blend of sheep and goat

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Examples

  • 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

  • The shoat was a large pig now, but travel had kept him thin.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • The shoat was a large pig now, but travel had kept him thin.

    Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

  • The shoat was a large pig now, but travel had kept him thin.

    Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

  • The shoat was a large pig now, but travel had kept him thin.

    Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985

  • (Oxford English Dictionary) [28.2] A shoat is a weaned pig under a year old.

    Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733] 1733

  • 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

  • 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

  • On a weanling shoat he'd earlier noticed rooting among the fallen apples beneath this favorite of all his trees.

    Ecce viator : Behold the Traveler 2010

  • Pork and pinot is a divine combo, and this biodynamic wine shined with the shoat and its stuffing.

    Wine: Does vino or beer go better with food? 2010

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  • 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

  • "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