Noun: voe
Sample Sentences
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On a fine summer's evening, an inhabitant of Unst happened to be walking along the sandy margin of a voe. [1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 268:]
Nouns inflected like voe
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Shetland and Orkney dialect, from Norn, from Old Norse vágr (“inlet, bay”). Cognate with Swedish and Norwegian våg, and Faroese vágur. Doublet of way. See: Faroese Nouns '
vágur'.