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語源 1

From 中期英語 schote, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a special use of 中期英語 schote (“projectile, young shoot”), or perhaps of Middle Low German origin, cognate with West Flemish schote (“young piglet”).

別の表記

• shote

名詞

shoat (plural shoats)

1. A weaned piglet; any piglet.

   Hypernyms: porcine < suidian < suilline < mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

   Near-synonym: more at piglet

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 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.

語源 2

Blend of sheep +‎ goat.

名詞

shoat (plural shoats)

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

   Synonym: geep

   Hypernyms: caprine, caprid < bovid < ungulate < mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

Further reading

• Sheep–goat hybrid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

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