The Grapes of Wrath vocabulary

"[...] he killed that shoat right there, an' he got Ma to light up the stove. He cut out pork chops an' put 'em in the pan, [...]"

John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath, p.30 (1939)

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You pigs git,” Augustus said, kicking the shoat. “Head on down to the creek if you want to eat that snake.”

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If you could buy shoats on credit, fatten them on food that cost next to nothing, sell them, pay off your loan, and take your profit, you would really have done something.

John Steinbeck. East of Eden, p.401 (1952)