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stoat
[ stoht ]
noun
- the ermine, Mustela erminea, especially when in brown summer pelage.
stoat
/ stəʊt /
noun
- a small Eurasian musteline mammal, Mustela erminea, closely related to the weasels, having a brown coat and a black-tipped tail: in the northern parts of its range it has a white winter coat and is then known as an ermine
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stoat1
1425–75; late Middle English stote < ?
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stoat1
C15: of unknown origin
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Example Sentences
It may be a visual pun on her surname, since the Greek for ermine or stoat is galay.
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Now the fox had his own ideas, and he wanted to get rid of the stoat.
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"No intrusion can be thought of for a moment," said the stoat.
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On this occasion the enemy turned out to be a stoat, and Cuni fled quaking lest it should be on her trail.
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Presently she came upon a luckless rabbit which had been killed by a stoat an hour before.
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He was never seen again, and neither was his sister who fed far out in the field one evening and was marked down by a stoat.
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