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† ˈthummart Sc. Obs.
Also 7 thulmard, 9 thummert, thoumart.
A dialectal alteration of foumart, polecat: see th (6).
1696A. Telfair True Relat. 12 (Edinb. ed.) By the way his Dog Catched a Thulmard. 1785Burns Twa Herds vi, The thummart, wil'-cat, brock and tod, Weel kend his voice. 1850J. D. Brown Ballads (1856) 98 (E.D.D.) His cleidin was skins o' the thoumart and tod.
transf.1822Galt Sir A. Wylie x, There never was surely a droller like thummert o' a creature seen. |