Not separating the geep from the shoats (and the OED)

[Eric Nielsen]

At 4/7/2014 05:41 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:


> Is there still a "shoat" connected to swine?


I was thinking the same.

"We are opposed to hog hunters that show no respect for the hog and hunt
with the bull dogs loose or too many dogs loose that kill pigs, maim sows
and shoats and eventually get their dogs cut to pieces by a tough old boar."

http://agrilife.org/texnatwildlife/feral-hogs/the-wild-boar-conservation-association/

Eric


On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 4/7/2014 05:41 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> >On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > > OED, "shoat, n.3", first published 1993.
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> >Is there still a "shoat" connected to swine?
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> At least through 1904.  It's n.2.  First published 1914, not yet fully
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> Joel
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