mouldwarp

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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”).

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Noun

mouldwarp (plural mouldwarps)

  1. (now regional, archaic) A mole, Talpa europea.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 1, subsection i:
      as the moldiwarp in Æsop told the fox […], you complain of toys, but I am blind, be quiet […].
    • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. , →OCLC:
      "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.
      Penguin 2006, p. 19

Translations

mole — see mole
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