10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOWDIEWORT»
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mowdiewort in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mowdiewort and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Concise English-Scots Dictionary
... slooter N, schamlich NE, hugmahush NE, foongil ANGUS, harl sw, s,
mowdiewort, hud- deron, scunyvaig; (big) sklyte(r) NE; (very messy) midden,
slitter, slaister. do something or work in a slovenly way guddle, clan , gutter,
plaister, scud- die, ...
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns, 1999
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The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story
Mistress Mowdiewort, I hae aye respectit ye, an' we are a' willin' to hear ye noo, if
you have onything to say for your son, but ... to put you out," said the minister,
rising impressively with his hand stretched towards Mistress Elspeth Mowdiewort.
Samuel Rutherford Crockett, 1895
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The men of the moss-hags: being a history of adventure taken ...
like a grey mowdiewort, which took the head between its fore- paws and rocked it
to and fro as a mother rocks a fretful bairn, sorrowing over it and pitying it. It was a
prodigy to see the eyes looking forth from the bone-sockets of the head.
Samuel Rutherford Crockett, 1895
4
Kailyard and Scottish Literature
The humorous sub-plot, featuring the trials and tribulations of the gravedigger,
Saunders Mowdiewort, shadows the main love-plot and allows Crockett to
include large sections of dialogue in Scots. Most of the lower-class characters,
including ...
5
Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
Mowdie-men, mole-catchers ;" Gall. Encycl. Mowdiewark, s. A mole, Upp.
Lanarks. V. MODTWART. Mowdiewort-bubd, 8. The mould-board of a plough,
Fife; elsewhere mowdicwarp-burd ; as throwing up the mold, like a mole.
MOWDIWART, s.
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
A candle immediately appeared in the hand of a middle-aged country damsel,
who started out from a door on my right ; and Geordy Mowdiewort the ploughman
, who was the person who spoke, seized a grajie, (dung-fork,) and came up to my
...
... I fand not in all that field, in faith, a bee-byke: -nest For as I grunchit at this
groom, and gliffenit26 about, grumbled I graipit graithly the gill, probed,
attentively, glen Every mowdiewort-hill, moleBut I micht pike there my fill Ere
penny come out.
Virgil, Gordon Kendal, Modern Humanities Research Association, 2011
8
Scots and Its Literature
... a variant of the attested Border word catterbatter), fairneycloots ('horny
outgrowths above the hoofs of a sheep or goat'), awastle ('westwards from, or far
away from'), kink ('a faint or swoon'), and the special use of mowdiewort to mean
a coin.
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A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
A mole-catcher, Gall. " Mowdie-men, mole-catchers Gall. Encycl. Mowdiewauk, $.
A mole, Upp. Lanarks. V. Modywart. Mowdiewort-burd, s. The mould-board of a
plough, Fife; elsewhere moxodiewarpJjurd; as throwing up the mold, like a mole.
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Cy. w.Yks. Lan. Stf.l s.Not. Lei); moulywarp sw.Lin.'; moundewarp e.Yks.; mouther
e.Yks.; mowdawarp s.Dur. ; mowdhat e.Yks.'; mowdiewark Sc. (11111.);
mowdiewarp e.Yks.'; mowdiewort Sc.; mowdiwark Sc.; mowdiwarp Lakel.2 Cum. \
Vm. n.
