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moud1 verb kill, murder: Are you going to moud me here? 20-. Compare moolie, mooled, mowded etymology: perhaps Romany; perhaps connected to Scots mould ‘bury, inter’; collected by EMcC/PS; attested by SS note:

Canadian Paul Pope (2013) cites the form mowd with the same meaning.

moud2 noun peat 20. etymology: a dervative of Scots muild ‘the dry crumbs of peat refuse at the bottom of a peat stack’; attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; also collected by Simson (1865)