Definitions
Etymologies
- Shetland and Orkney dialect, from Old Norse vágr. Cognate with Swedish and Norwegian våg, and Icelandic vogur. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We voe to continue your work until all Americans are insured with a single payer, the government.”
“What goes around comes around, just voe these commies out of office in November.”
“This white liberal dem will never vte obama b/c I cannot stand his supporters ... so I could care less if hillary who I gave several hundred dollars too – asks me too personally voe for little o (i won't do it)! nannie bouroughs, Kenosha, WI”
“Hillary one voe would NOT have stopped the war authorization bill from passing because it has broad bipartisan support!!”
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“How about the origins of “do you need a roof on your church” or “walking money” or “little Jose crying because his father came out the grave to voe for LBJ but did not pay him a visit?””
“July 27, 2008 at 2:38 am taht is a look uv pure luvs an dee-voe-shuns from teh hooman, too”
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“There has been a significant amount of very settled weather up here over the past two or three days, to the point that the water in the voe was as smooth as glass.”
“D: enuh .. ia me preparoh para irmeh .. faltan .. muy pocos minutos xD enuh .. me voe!!! hasta la prox!!!”
“The animal, upwards of sixty feet in length, was lying perfectly still, in a deep part of the voe into which it had weltered, and where it seemed to await the return of tide, of which it was probably assured by instinct.”
“As the boats had to double a little headland, ere they opened the mouth of the voe, those who came by land to the shores of the inlet had time to make the necessary reconnaissances upon the force and situation of the enemy, on whom they were about to commence a simultaneous attack by land and sea.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘voe’.
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3-letter Scrabble Words
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Geology Words
The descriptive science described.
earth, lithosphere, mineral, convection, heat flow, ore, deep time, fossil, formation, rock, tectonics, extinction and 281 more...
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words i learned from scrabble
vigs, prate, adoze, kain, kane, vealy, yawp, cep, jute, nerolis, voe, jow and 29 more...
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annoying little words used against me...
yirr, defi, recce, bindi, ose, ani, eng, sloid, orle, voe, aine, ansa and 23 more...
Tweets
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knitandpurl "still pointed westward
down the long voe,
down toward the ocean
where the business is."
- from "The Overhaul" by Kathleen Jamie, p 60 of the May 28, 2012 edition of the New Yorker May 29, 2012
garyth123 i can confirm Shetland is replete with these. Dec 14, 2008
rolig "An inlet, bay, or creek; -- so called in the Orkney and Shetland Islands. --Jamieson." – Webster's Rev. Unab. Dict. May 5, 2008