oe

noun — 2 senses

oe

noun

US /oʊ/ · UK /əʊ/

Etymology From Swedish ö and Danish ø. Doublet of ey.

1

Literary, Poetic, Rare A small island.

I love my father's northern land, / Where the dark pine-trees grow, / And the bold Baltic's echoing strand / Looks o'er each grassy oe.1817, [Walter Scott], “Canto Third”, in Harold the Dauntless; […], Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza X.2, page 97:

oe

noun

US, UK, SC /ɔɪ/

Etymology From Scottish Gaelic ogha; for spelling see Scots.

1

A grandchild.

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