Noun: vole
Sample Sentences
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Ladies, I'll venture for the vole. [1731, Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift:]
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With humble curate can I now retire,
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(While good Sir Peter boozes with the squire,)
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And at backgammon mortify my soul,
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That pants for loo, or flutters at a vole? [1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, Epilogue:]
Nouns inflected like vole
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Norn vollj, from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”). The Orkney dialectal term 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. See: Old Norse Nouns '
vǫllr'.
Verbs referencing "vole"
Irish Nouns
vól.