| 单词 | shoat | 
| 释义 | shoatn.1 Obsolete exc. dialect.   A fish resembling the trout, but smaller, found in Devon and Cornwall. (See also quots. 1865,  1894.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > 			[noun]		 > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) shoata1000 river trout1589 sheliscada1640 bouge1705 yellowfin1771 gillaroo1773 gizzard-trout1773 whiting1792 orange-fin1834 pug-trout1865 a1000    in  T. Wright  & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. 		(1884)	 I. 94  				Tructos, sceotan. 1602    R. Carew Surv. Cornwall  i. f. 26  				The Shote [is] in a maner peculiar to Deuon and Cornwall, in shape and colour he resembleth the Trowt: howbeit in bignesse and goodnesse, commeth farre behind him. 1613    W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I.  ii. 23  				The Shoates with whom is Tauie fraught. a1636    T. Westcote View Devonshire 1630 		(1845)	 39  				Scad. Salmon. Shott. Seal. a1640    T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon 		(1811)	 		(modernized text)	 §301 312  				This brook..aboundeth with shoots and sheliscads, a fish not unlike the trout, and said to be peculiar to Devonshire and Cornwall. 1865    J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands IV. 225  				Common Trout. [Syn.] Shot. 1880–4    F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 104  				Salmo fario. Shot (Westmoreland). 1894    Trans. Woolhope Nat. Field Club 204  				Mr. Matthews caught a good many ‘shotts’ [app. a local term for grayling] in the Monnow above Monmouth Cap. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021). shoatn.2 dialect and U.S.  1.  A young weaned pig. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > 			[noun]		 > young > weaned shoat1413 speaning1536 weaner1865 1413    in  J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham 		(1898)	 I. 54  				In 1 porcell. de xma, 4d... In 1 Schoyth empt., 22d. 1465    in  Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. 		(1841)	 296  				For vij. yonge shotes. v.s. 1509    in  Stocks Market Harb. Rec. 		(1890)	 230  				A Boere Fedde v shots and A Sowe. 1567    in  J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond 		(1853)	 203  				Of old swyne xij. Two shoits, v piggs, liiijs viijd. 1611    R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues  				Marson, a shoat; a hog thats a yeare, or vnder a yeare, old. a1641    J. Webster et al.  Cure for Cuckold 		(1661)	  ii. i. sig. C3v  				You have a brave Boy of your own wifes: oh tis a shot to this pig. a1641    J. Smyth Berkeley MSS 		(1883)	 I. 155  				Hoggs, porkets, shootes and piggs. 1663    ‘P. Stampoy’ Coll. Sc. Prov. 54  				The shots overgoes the old swine. 1669    J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ 		(1681)	 331  				Sheat, or Shutt, a young Hog. 1697    W. Dampier New Voy. around World xv. 411  				We killed a small Shote, or young Porker. 1707    E. Ward Barbacue Feast 5  				A Hoggard coming by with a Drove of young Shoats. a1722    E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry 		(1757)	 403  				Spayed and gelt shutes. 1787    W. Marshall Provincialisms in  Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 388  				Shots, young store-swine. 1811    T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 		(new ed.)	 260  				Shoots, young pigs of three or four months old. 1904    G. H. Lorimer Old Gorgon Graham vi. 120  				Like a six-months shoat at the trough.  2.  transferred. An idle worthless person. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > 			[noun]		 > lazy person > an idler or loafer lurdanc1330 player1340 moochera1425 loon?c1450 lounger?a1513 idler1534 rest man1542 holiday-woman1548 baty bummill1568 bummill baty1568 friar-fly?1577 idol1579 lingerer1579 loll1582 idleby1589 shit-rags1598 blaitie bum1602 idle1635 Lollard1635 loiterer1684 saunterer1688 scobberlotchera1697 bumble1786 quisby1789 waffler1805 shoat1808 loafer1830 bummer1855 dead beat1863 bum1864 scowbanker1864 schnorrer1875 scowbank1881 ikey1906 layabout1932 lie-about1937 spine-basher1946 limer1964 1808    M. L. Weems Life G. Washington 		(ed. 6)	 vi. 38  				The poorest shoat. 1840    T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. xi. 153  				I am the poorest shot in the world. Poorest shote, said he, you mean, for you have no soul in you. 1862    J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser.  ii. i. 75  				Long'z you elect for Congressmen poor shotes thet want to go Coz they can't seem to git their grub no otherways than so. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shoatn.3 Originally Australian.   The offspring of a sheep and a goat. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > 			[noun]		 > offspring of sheep and goat shoat1969 1969    D. F. Elder Let. to Editor 17 Sept.  				Although it has not appeared in print, the radio and television news programmes have also been using the word ‘shoats’. 1971    New Scientist 8 July 66/1  				Hundreds of people have claimed success in breeding shoats or geep. 1985    Daily Tel. 12 Aug. 7/1  				The shoat began as a normally conceived lamb by one set of sheep and a normally conceived kid by two goats. 1987    Sydney Morning Herald 28 Nov. 2/8  				Chimeras of goats and sheep have been made—the ‘shoat’—and in one case the embryos of four breeds of mice were successfully combined and grown. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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