1) A young hog; a pig partially grown. This old English word is written in different forms in several of the counties of England. Cotgrave (1611) spells it shote, shoat, and shoot, and defines it, "a hog that is a year or under a year old." Bailey, Martin, and Johnson, spell it shoot; Ainsworth, shote; Lemon, shot; Moor and Forby, shot and shoat; Holloway, shoot and sheet; Ray, sheat, shote, and shoot; and Ray remarks, that "In Essex they call it a shote." In this country the common form is shote, used for a young hog.--Worcester.
2) An idle, worthless man. 'A poor shote.' It is also provincial in England in this sense.