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1. I’ve never heard that — but I have said and heard, “happy as a pig in the sunshine” all my life. Apparently swine in the sunshine are happy, regardless of age or size or sex!

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2. Beth-thank you for the comments! And YES that is a snuff jar youve got good eyes : ) Have a great evening!

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3. Have you heard of people getting “shed” of something?
   For example, “He got shed of his old truck and bought him a new one.”
   Meaning…get rid of

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4. Never heard it said like that but I do know a shoat is a baby pig. Right?
   There use to be an old joke about two men going down the road to look at Old Man Morgan’s shoats, and the city guy thought they were crazy walking all that way just to see an old guy’s underwear (shorts).
   God bless.
   RB
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5. A young weaned pig. Also spelled Shote.

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6. A young weaned pig. Also spelled Shote.

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7. A young weaned pig. Also spelled Shote.

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8. A young weaned pig. Also spelled Shote.

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9. Tipper,
   We had lots of pigs when I was growing up. When the pigs reached about 180 pounds, they were called shoats. We had the black and white ones (Poland-China),
   solid red ones (Durock), and solid white ones (OIC’s, Ohio Improved Chesters), some of them were red and white (Hampshire or Yorkshire). But daddy had a solid black bore he called Andy. That thing thought he was a dog cause he slept on the porch and the feists accepted him. He even went Posseum Hunting with us, but I don’t recon he knew about them. We had 58 sows and 6 registered bores and me and Harold would take huge boxes of popcorn (from the spillings of Blevins Popcorn Company in Atlanta) and go about 300 yards along the fence, so daddy could mix and feed them in their troughs. We never ate any of these cause I guess we were too close to ’em. …Ken

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10. Don’t you just wish you could go back in time to witness when the sounds first came together to make the word representing each thing?!

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11. That sounds like me after a 30+ hour shift.. Thank God ,fortunately haven’t had one in a while…

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12. “Like a Warm Breakfast.”

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13. To me, a shoat is bigger than a pig and smaller than a hog. Our folks used to like a “100 pound shoat” to barbecue over a pit with oak and hickory coals. One time I heard a person with little farming connection guess that a “shoat” must be a cross between a sheep and a goat. Nice try, but no cigar…

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14. Now that’s one I’ve only seen in books 🙂

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15. Tipper,that fits better than socks on a rooster.
    LG

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16. According to my iPad and various reference a shoat is a young pig that’s newly weaned. Well I’ve learnt something new today. I’ve heard

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17. Haven’t heard the word “shoat” in many years. It’s a young pig, Miss Cindy.

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18. Tipper,
    Keerful that little piggy don’t dry out or he will need to waller again in the corner of the pig sty!
    Wish I had a good corn fed side of bacon in the freezer! I know it’s not supposed to be good for you! However, all my folks lived to a ripe old age and their feed consisted of more cured hog than beef!
    Thanks Tipper,
    PS…This little piggy was a dancin’ little piggy and she boogie-woogied all the way home!

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19. Ahh, the comparisons to our farm animals – they are endless in our language!
    Is that a snuff glass she’s holding up to the door?

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20. Shoat? Is that a variety of a pig?

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