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Shoat vs Sloat - What's the difference?

shoat | sloat |

As nouns the difference between shoat and sloat

is that shoat is a young, newly-weaned pig while sloat is a narrow piece of timber that holds together large pieces; a slat.

shoat

English

Etymology 1

Of unknown origin. Perhaps cognate with West Flemish schote ‘young piglet’.

Alternative forms

* shote

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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

    Etymology 2

    Noun

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

    • Anagrams

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    sloat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A narrow piece of timber that holds together large pieces; a slat.
    • the sloats of a cart
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