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mouldwarp

noun
/ˈməʊldwɔːp/UK

Etymology

From Middle English moldewarpe, moldewarp, moldewerp, (also molwarpe, molewarpe), from Old English *moldeweorpe, ("mole"; literally "earth-thrower"; compare Old English wandeweorpe (“mole”)), from Proto-Germanic *muldawurpiz (“earth-thrower, mole”), equivalent to mould + warp. Cognate with Scots malwart, modewarp (“mole”), Dutch molworp (“mole”), Low German mulworp, molworm (“mole”), German Maulwurf (“mole”), Danish muldvarp (“mole”), Swedish mullvad (“mole”), Icelandic moldvarpa (“mole”).

  1. inherited from *muldawurpiz✻
  2. inherited from *moldeweorpe✻
  3. inherited from moldewarpe

Definitions

  1. A mole, Talpa europea.

    • as the moldiwarp in Æsop told the fox […], you complain of toys, but I am blind, be quiet […].
    • "Yi, an' there's some chaps as does go round like moudiwarps." He thrust his face forward in the blind, snout-like way of a mole, seeming to sniff and peer for direction.

The neighborhood

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