Is "しょっと" an informal version of "ちょっと" in "よい……しょっと?"


Context: A child is preparing his props for a play. My first guess was that
this was a variant of ちょっと, but I tried double checking on Google and got
really weird grammar details that don't match the context.




_(Converted from an earlier comment on encouragement from
@[naruto](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/users/5010/). )_

I suspect that this is just a variant of the よいしょ call, basically kinda like
"heave, ho!" in English, something said where the よい part is the windup,
getting ready for a strong effort, and then the しょ part is where the person
applies pressure / throws something / pulls hard / etc. If you can read
Japanese, [here is the よいしょ page at
Kotobank](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%82%88%E3%81%84%E3%81%97%E3%82%87-652619).




_(Converted from an earlier comment on encouragement from
@[naruto](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/users/5010/). )_

I suspect that this is just a variant of the よいしょ call, basically kinda like
"heave, ho!" in English, something said where the よい part is the windup,
getting ready for a strong effort, and then the しょ part is where the person
applies pressure / throws something / pulls hard / etc. If you can read
Japanese, [here is the よいしょ page at
Kotobank](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%82%88%E3%81%84%E3%81%97%E3%82%87-652619).

