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shote

shote is the alternative form of shoat.

Meaning of shoat

Noun (1)

shoat (plural shoats)

  1. A weaned piglet; any piglet.
    • Near-synonym: more at piglet
    Synonyms:
    more at piglet

Noun (2)

shoat (plural shoats)

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

Noun

shote (plural shotes)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus).
    • The rest are common to other Shires, but the Shote in a maner peculiar to Deuon and Cornwall: in shape and colour he resembleth the Trowt1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC

Forms of shote

pluralshotes

Origin of shote

From Old English sceota (“trout”).

Questions about shote

What does shote mean?
Shote means a fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus).
What is shote the alternative form of?
Shote is the alternative form of shoat.
What part of speech is shote?
Shote is a noun.
What is the plural of shote?
The plural of shote is shotes.

Words near shote in the dictionary

  1. shotcrete
  2. shotcreter
  3. shotcreters
  4. shotcretes
  5. shotcreting
  6. shote
  7. shotel
  8. shotels
  9. shoter
  10. shoterim
  11. shotes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shote (page history and authors); shoat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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