vole

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vəʊl/, [vɔʊɫ]

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /voʊl/, [voɫ]
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [voːɫ]
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /vəʉl/, /vɐʉl/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /vol/, [voɫ]
• Rhymes: -əʊl

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.

Borrowed from French vole.

vole (plural voles)

1. (archaic) A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.^[1]
   • 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?

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

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

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

• vole on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “vole”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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

• voll

From Middle High German vol, voll, from Old High German foll, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz. Cognate with German voll, Dutch vol, English full, Icelandic fullur.

vole (comparative völler, superlative völlscht)

1. full

• IPA^(key): [ˈvolɛ]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vole m

1. vocative singular of vůl

vole

1. (informal) man, dude
2. ellipsis of ty vole

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".

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *voľe with unclear origin; possibly related to German schwellen, Wulst. First attested in the 14th century.^[1][2]

vole n

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

   Synonym: struma

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vole

1. masculine singular present transgressive of volit

• “vole”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “vole”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “vole”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈvole/

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• Rhymes: -ole
• Hyphenation: vo‧le

vole

1. voluntarily

• vole nevole (“voluntarily or involuntarily, like it or lump it”)

• vola (“voluntary”)
• voli (“to want, wish”)
• volo (“volition; one's wish”)

vole

1. inflection of voler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• love, lové
• vélo

From French voler (“fly”).

• IPA^(key): /vole/

vole

1. to fly

vole

1. present of voler
2. imperative of voler

vole

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

• vuole

• Elvo, levo, levò, velo, velò

vole n (plural voleuri)

1. obsolete form of voleu

• vole in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

vole

1. vocative singular of vol

vole (Cyrillic spelling воле)

1. third-person plural present indicative of voljeti

From French volée.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈvo.le/
• Hyphenation: vo‧le

vole (definite accusative voleyi, plural voleler)

1. (sports) A volley kick in association football.
2. (sports) A shot in tennis before the ball hits the ground.

• “vole”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “vole”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5130

vole

1. dative singular of vol

vole

1. alternative form of vall

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 76