stoat
Americannoun
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stoats
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of stoat
1425–75; late Middle English stote < ?
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This makes it yet another introduced species like the rat or stoat, with unpredictable behavior.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2025
Jose saw this stoat jump mid-air as an "expression of exuberance" as the small mammal hurled itself around in a fresh snowfall.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2024
On one predator-free island—home to threatened species such as a flightless parrot called the kakapo—the government spent some $295,000 over eight months tracking down a single stoat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2024
Decked out at one point in a velvet blazer and turtleneck, hair teased into the likeness of a dead stoat, Robey is less demented sadist than disco king.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
All he saw was the battered body of a stoat being borne towards him on what appeared to be a boiling wave of ooze.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
They imported possums for fur, rabbits to hunt for sport, then ravenous stoats to control the rabbit population.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2025
When the Orkney Native Wildlife Project began removing stoats in 2019 it was estimated there were 12 breeding pairs of curlew per square kilometre.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2025
That means eradicating invasive species such as possums, rats and mustelids—a group that includes weasels, ferrets and stoats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2024
Starting in the 1800s, millions were slaughtered by nonnative predators like stoats, a mammal related to the weasel.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
Weasels and stoats jostled past them carrying baskets of earth or dragging rocks and roots.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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