Stoat vs Shoat - What's the difference?
stoat | shoat |
, the ermine or short-tailed weasel, a mustelid native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip.
* 1886 , Transactions of the Edinburgh Naturalists' Field Club , Volume 1,
* 2003 , John Long, Introduced Mammals of the World: Their History, Distribution and Influence ,
* 2005 , T. C. R. White, Why Does the World Stay Green?: Nutrition and Survival of Plant-eaters ,
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 .
A geep, a sheep-goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating).
As nouns the difference between stoat and shoat
is that stoat is species: Mustela erminea, the ermine or short-tailed weasel, a mustelid native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip while shoat is a young, newly-weaned pig.stoat
English
(wikipedia stoat)Noun
(en noun)page 135,
- I have never seen Stoats' hunt in packs, but it is certain both Weasels and ' Stoats do so.
page 272,
- In 1953 it was reported that the stoat had increased to a high population level, but that the weasel introduced at the same time had disappeared (de Vos et al. 1956).
page 91,
- European stoats were long ago introduced to New Zealand (along with ferrets and weasels!) in the mistaken belief that they would control the burgeoning populations of introduced rabbits.