Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The mole, Talpa europæa. See
mole .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
mole the animal.
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- noun Alternative form of
mouldwarp .
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Examples
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We spend some time with "The Shakespeare Insult Kit," which offers choice adjectives and nouns from the Bard's work that one can configure in any number of combinations, such as "thou dankish, fat-kidneyed moldwarp" or "thou mammering, onion-eyed ratsbane."
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We spend some time with "The Shakespeare Insult Kit," which offers choice adjectives and nouns from the Bard's work that one can configure in any number of combinations, such as "thou dankish, fat-kidneyed moldwarp" or "thou mammering, onion-eyed ratsbane."
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"Thou vain fly-bitten moldwarp!" and "Thou gorbellied clapper-clawed scurvy-knave!" are just a sample of the offerings.
CNN.com 2009
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"Well, tha'll get noa better on for cawering ith 'haase like a moldwarp.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
mollusque commented on the word moldwarp
According to OED2: 1) the European mole;
2) an underhanded person (Scottish);
3) a stupid person (American).
I also have to retract my statement from earlier today about the dozen variant spellings of gallimaufry. OED2 lists 136 spellings of moldwarp.
November 4, 2007
Gammerstang commented on the word moldwarp
(noun) - Mole; from Old Teutonic mold, earth, and worpon to throw up. --Nathan Bailey's Universal Etymological English Dictionary, 1749
April 22, 2018