foumart
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of foumart
First recorded in 1300–50, foumart is from the Middle English word fulmard, folmarde. See foul, marten
Example Sentences
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A foumart was caught in the back kitchen; you may perhaps know it better by the name of polecat.
From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by White, Adam
O weary fa’ the waukrife cock, And the foumart lay his crawin!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
Skins of whitterit or weasel, of foumart or pole-cat, of the wild cat itself, of great unsightly rats, of moles and of voles, and hawks and owls galore.
From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Stables, Gordon
O weary fa' the waukrife cock, And the foumart lay his crawin!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
I'm well off the ridge," he muttered; "they could have marked me down like a foumart as I ran.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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