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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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moudie
noun
a mole:
...
I was more than annoyed when I felt the ground moving under me. ‘God pity you, you silly we black moudie!’
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etymology:
Scots; back formation from Scots
mowdiewort
‘a mole’; attested by
JS
and
BW