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Shoat

//ʃəʊt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A young, newly-weaned pig.

    "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?"

  2. 2
    A sheep–goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating).
  3. 3
    a young pig wordnet

Etymology

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”).

Etymology 2

Blend of sheep + goat.

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