shoat
1
9.9
- noun
- /ʃoʊt/
- Archaic
:
lechón
- They bought two shoats to raise for meat.
Examples
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I plan to buy shoats next spring and fatten them on corn.
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They bought two shoats to raise for meat.
Fiction book (1992) -
Something came through here last night and killed my two prized shoats.
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I plan to buy shoats next spring and fatten them on corn.
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"She hears the shoats squealing."
Fiction book (2001) -
"I'm as proud as a sow with a litter of shoats."
Fiction book (1990) -
We've even got eleven little shoats! "So true," said Mama.
Fiction book (2001) -
He pulled up into the yard, and while he and Uncle Lofton were talking friendly, one of Uncle Lofton's shoats that had been drinking in the mash staggered out from the yard.
Fiction book (1993) -
The shoats in the next pen set up a braying squeal and horned their snouts between the boards.
Synonyms
137
2.8
A young farm animal with a short nose and curly tail
62
1.0
A very young farm animal with a round body and short legs that still drinks its mother's milk
A young pig that no longer drinks its mother's milk
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shoat comes from an old English word that meant 'a young pig'. So a shoat is simply a newly weaned pig, and you can remember it as a small, lively piglet that trots after its mother.