vole

See also: volé, volê, and vøle

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Norn [Term?], from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”), q.v. The Orkney dialectal name vole mouse, lit. "field mouse", was introduced to general English by George Barry in 1805; John Fleming in 1828 was first to refer to the creature by the epithet vole alone. Displaced earlier names for these species which also classified them as mice, e.g. short-tailed field mouse.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvəʊl/
  • Rhymes: -əʊl

Noun

vole (plural voles)

  1. Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae of the family Cricetidae which are not lemmings or muskrats.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

French

Noun

vole (plural voles)

  1. A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.
    • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift
      Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.

Verb

vole (third-person singular simple present voles, present participle voling, simple past and past participle voled)

  1. (card games, intransitive) To win all the tricks by a vole.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Alexander Pope to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vole in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɔlɛ/

Etymology 1

Declension of vůl.

Noun

vole

  1. vocative singular of vůl

Interjection

vole

  1. (informal) man, dude
Usage notes

This interjection is considered vulgar by some people, its primary meaning being "you ass"; however, it is today quite frequently used in very informal speech without any vulgar overtones, either as a friendly address or as an emphasizer; some people lard their talk with it without its having any meaning (similarly to the way some people use "fuck" in English, but "vole" is not so strong). It is often used in the form "ty vole".

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic with unclear origin; possibly related with German schwellen, Wulst.[1][2]

Noun

vole n

  1. crop, craw (pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds)
  2. (obsolete) goitre
Declension
Synonyms

Etymology 3

Conjugation of volit.

Verb

vole

  1. masculine singular present transgressive of volit

References

  1. ↑ vole in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007
  2. ↑ "vole" in Václav Machek, Etymologický slovník jazyka českého, second edition, Academia, 1968

Esperanto

Adverb

vole

  1. voluntarily

Derived terms

French

Verb

vole

  1. first-person singular present indicative of voler
  2. third-person singular present indicative of voler
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of voler
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of voler
  5. second-person singular imperative of voler

Anagrams

Interlingua

Verb

vole

  1. present of voler
  2. imperative of voler

Italian

Verb

vole

  1. (archaic) third-person singular indicative present of volere

Synonyms

Anagrams

Volapük

Noun

vole

  1. dative singular of vol
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