shoat
Example Sentences
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They can live with hogs, have half a dozen shoats at the dinner-table, a litter of pigs in the family bed, but they can't abide Irish.
From Project Gutenberg
Droves of black hogs and shoats are ploughing the sward in their search for sweet roots, or lying half-buried in the wet sand.
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He was rather 'fixed up,' and he resolved that he would pass on without looking at the shoat.
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I wouldn’t have been up near so early myself, if it hadn’t been for those confounded shoats of mine.”
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Both sides reckon he's a swill player and are willing to go the whole hog and pig out with a £17m bid and in a shoat time he'll be signing for them.
From The Guardian
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