shoat

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”).

noun

  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? 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 68
    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

Etymology 2

Blend of sheep + goat

noun

  1. A geep, a sheep-goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating).

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