shoat

plural shoats · alternative shote

1. A weaned piglet; any piglet.

   Near-synonym: more at piglet

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   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

   Synonyms: more at piglet

plural shoats

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

   Synonyms: geep