Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inlet, bay, or creek.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An inlet, bay, or creek; -- so called in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
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- noun UK A narrow sea
inlet , particularly in the Shetland Islands, similar to afjord .
Etymologies
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Examples
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What goes around comes around, just voe these commies out of office in November.
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We voe to continue your work until all Americans are insured with a single payer, the government.
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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
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Hillary one voe would NOT have stopped the war authorization bill from passing because it has broad bipartisan support!!
Obama: It's Me Against The D.C. Foreign Policy Establishment 2009
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Hillary one voe would NOT have stopped the war authorization bill from passing because it has broad bipartisan support!!
Obama: It's Me Against The D.C. Foreign Policy Establishment 2009
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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?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Let Marianne, Goddess of Liberty 2009
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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.
Midwinter Surf Epic Wanderer 2008
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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.
Archive 2008-12-01 Epic Wanderer 2008
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D: enuh .. ia me preparoh para irmeh .. faltan .. muy pocos minutos xD enuh .. me voe!!! hasta la prox!!!
crazydark Diary Entry crazydark 2008
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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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rolig commented on the word voe
"An inlet, bay, or creek; -- so called in the Orkney and Shetland Islands. --Jamieson." – Webster's Rev. Unab. Dict.
May 5, 2008
garyth123 commented on the word voe
i can confirm Shetland is replete with these.
December 14, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word voe
"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 30, 2012