voleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈvəʊl/
• Rhymes: -əʊl

名詞

vole (複数形 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.

派生語

• volelike
• water vole

語源 2

Borrowed from French vole.

名詞

vole (複数形 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.

   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, Epilogue:

     With humble curate can I now retire,

     (While good Sir Peter boozes with the squire,)

     And at backgammon mortify my soul,

     That pants for loo, or flutters at a vole?

動詞

vole (三人称単数 現在形 voles, 現在分詞 voling, 過去形および過去分詞形 voled)

1. (card games, intransitive) To win all the tricks by a vole.
   • 1717, Alexander Pope, “The Fourth Satire of Dr. John Donne”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC:

     no lad shall chuck, or lady vole, But some excising Courtier will have toll.

Further reading

• vole on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• Love, levo, levo-, love, velo-, voël