different between shoat vs scoat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t/
• Rhymes: -??t

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”).

Alternative forms

• shote

Noun

shoat (plural shoats)

1. A young, newly-weaned pig.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 68:

     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?

   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:

     There would have been nature studies – a tiger pursuing a bird of paradise, a choking snake sheathing whole the flayed trunk of a shoat.

Synonyms

• piglet

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of sheep +? goat

Noun

shoat (plural shoats)

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

Anagrams

• Athos, HATOs, HOTAS, Shota, has to, hoast, hosta, oaths, shota

English

Etymology

Old French ascouter, from ascot (“a branch”),(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “...from Teut., Old High Ger. scuz, a shoot; Ger. schuss”)

Verb

scoat (third-person singular simple present scoats, present participle scoating, simple past and past participle scoated)

1. (Britain, dialect) To prop; to scotch.

Anagrams

• Ascot, Casto, Coats, Costa, Cotas, Sacto, Tosca, ascot, catso, coast, coats, costa, octas, scato-, tacos