shote

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noun

A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus).

Similar
pigletpiggyshoat
OriginOld English sceota →
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Meanings

shote1

nounshote (plural shotes)

plural shotes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of shoat (“young pig”).

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

    1914, Vachel Lindsay, The Congo

shote2

nounshote (plural shotes)

plural shotes

  1. UKdialectalobsoleteA fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus).

    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

    1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna young pig

Similar
pigletpiggyshoat
Broader
young mammal
Also see
piggypigletshoat

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Old Englishsceota“trout”
  2. Englishshote

From Old English sceota (“trout”).

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APA

shote. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shote

MLA

“shote.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shote. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shote,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shote.

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