shoat
nounEtymology Blend of sheep + goat.
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A sheep–goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating).
shoat
noun/ʃəʊt/
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”).
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A weaned piglet; any piglet.
- Near-synonym: more at piglet
- 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:
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- 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: