Voleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /vəʊl/, [vɔʊɫ]
• (General American) IPA: /voʊl/, [voɫ]
• (Canada) IPA: [voːɫ]
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /vəʉl/, /vɐʉl/
• (Scotland) IPA: /vol/, [voɫ]
• 韻: -əʊl

名詞

vole (plural voles)

1. Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the tribes Arvicolini, Ellobiusini, Clethrionomyini, Pliomyini, Phenacomyini and Prometheomyini.

派生語

語源 2

Borrowed from French vole.

名詞

vole (plural voles)

1. (archaic) 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 (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.
   • 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.

Further reading

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

参照

アナグラム

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