Shote

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of shoat. alt-of, alternative

    "Just then from the doorway, as fat as shotes, Came the cake-walk princes in their long red coats[…]"

  2. 2
    a young pig wordnet
  3. 3
    A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus). UK, dialectal, obsolete

    "The rest are common to other Shires, but the Shote in a maner peculiar to Deuon and Cornwall: in shape and colour he resembleth the Trowt"

Synonyms

All synonyms
piggypigletpigletshoat

Example

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"Just then from the doorway, as fat as shotes, Came the cake-walk princes in their long red coats[…]"

Etymology

From Old English sceota (“trout”).

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thymallus thymallus

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