moudiewart

1. (Scotland) A mole (burrowing rodent).Examples: "My faith, he's as black as a craw, and as sleek as a moudiewart."; "It's an unyearthly kind of trade, turning night intil day, and working like moudiewarts in the dark, when decent folks are in their beds sleeping—And so, as I was saying, ye see, it happened ae Sunday night that a chap cam to the back door; and the mistress too heard it."; "O gin my sons were moudiewarts To hide into the earth, O gin my head lay in the mools Ere I had gien them birth !"Scotland