moudiewort
Moudiewort is a Scots dialect name for the mole — the small, burrowing insectivore (Talpa europaea) familiar across Britain and Europe.
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Moudiewort is a Scots dialect name for the mole — the small, burrowing insectivore (Talpa europaea) familiar across Britain and Europe. The name connects to the animal's digging behaviour and its association with the underground. Like many Scots animal names, it has a vivid, slightly comic quality. Archaic in everyday speech, it survives in dialect literature and Scots vernacular culture, where it occasionally appears in proverbs and folk sayings about secrecy and underground activity.
The garden was pocked with moudiewort hills all along the lawn, which drove the gardener absolutely mad.
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(Scotland) A mole (the animal).
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