shoat

also shote (shōt)

A young pig just after weaning.

[Middle English shote, perhaps of Middle Low German origin.]

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shoat

(ʃəʊt) or

shote

(Agriculture) a piglet that has recently been weaned

[C15: related to West Flemish schote]

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shoat

(ʃoʊt)

n.

a young, weaned pig.

[1375–1425]

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Noun

shoat - a young pig

piggy, piglet, shote

young mammal - any immature mammal

genus Sus, Sus - type genus of the Suidae

sucking pig - an unweaned piglet

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Frischling

shoat

n (US: = piglet) → Ferkel nt, → junges Schwein

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When he returned, the big, kindly man came with him, and in Martin's arms there squealed and wriggled a shoat.

"That's what he said," nodded Peter, carefully switching his navy plug to the opposite cheek before settling down to reply, "and sez I, 'Why, Martin, what d'ye want o' that there shoat? You ain't got nothin' to keep her on!' 'If I can borrow the pig,' sez he, 'I reckon I can borrow the feed somewheres.' God knows, he'll find that ain't so plentiful, but he's got the right idea.

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A swine of God fattened upon the sweat of such poor honest devils as we, and a young shoat who, by his looks, must have pieces of gold in his belt.

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One of them swung me to his shoulder as lightly as if I had been a shoat. He was a huge creature, as were his fellows, standing fully seven feet upon his short legs and weighing considerably more than a quarter of a ton.

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Asim Imdad, Associate Dean, Business Administration and Social Sciences, Dr Shoat Mubarak and other senior faculty members were also present on this occasion.

MAJU President awarded scholarships to students on obtaining highest CGPA

Lucas sat on an upended milk pail cradling a small shoat hog while it squirmed and bleated, its eyes walling white with pain.

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The route took upast the city of Kiel where we were shoat and it must have hit our fuel tanks.

Hitler's war prevented me being in two Olympics...so bombed him & his Nazis; PRIDE OF BRITAIN ST TAR BILL, 99, ON HIS AMAZING LIFE; EXCLUSIVE

K called me that night, happier'n a shoat in a slop trough.

Moohoohahaha! It lives! Spooky stuff indeed

K called that evening, tickled as a shoat in a slop trough.

The accidental Frankengun: looks goofy-shoots spooky

Em favor dessa posicao, Shoat e Stam precisariam a distincao entre neocolonialismo e pos-colonialismo:

About places of crime and punishment: periphery and colonial imaginary/Sobre lugares de crimes e castigos: periferia e imaginario colonial

The hybrid, sometimes referred to as a geep or a shoat, is believed to be extremely unusual.