mid-15c., stote, "the ermine, especially in its brown summer coat," of uncertain origin. The word bears resemblance to Old Norse stutr "bull," Swedish stut "bull," Danish stud "ox," but the sense is difficult unless a common notion is "male animal."
雙語例句
1. Fox, badger, weasel and stoat are regularly seen here.
狐貍、獾、黃鼠狼和白鼬在這里很常見。
來自柯林斯例句
2. I shall come down your burrow and chivvy you out like an old stoat.
我要鉆進(jìn)你的地洞里去,象趕一只老鼬鼠一般把你趕出來.
來自辭典例句
3. Now triangular blades farther back , like secateurs, help the stoat to cut meat away from bone.