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Mouldwarp
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mouldwarp
mouldwarp
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Noun
mouldwarp (plural mouldwarps)
- (now regional) A mole, Talpa europea.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.1.i:
- as the moldiwarp in Æsop told the fox […], you complain of toys, but I am blind, be quiet […].
- 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 19:
- "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.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.1.i: