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stoat

[ stoht ]

noun

  1. the ermine, Mustela erminea, especially when in brown summer pelage.


stoat

/ stəʊt /

noun

  1. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

Now the fox had his own ideas, and he wanted to get rid of the stoat.

"No intrusion can be thought of for a moment," said the stoat.

On this occasion the enemy turned out to be a stoat, and Cuni fled quaking lest it should be on her trail.

Presently she came upon a luckless rabbit which had been killed by a stoat an hour before.

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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