foumart
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of foumart
First recorded in 1300–50, foumart is from the Middle English word fulmard, folmarde. See foul, marten
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In my county, as well as in many parts of England, the popular name is "foumart," which is said to be derived from "foul marten."
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
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 Adam White
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 Gordon Stables
O weary fa' the waukrife cock, And the foumart lay his crawin!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Then Evening goes to the hedgehog, to the fox, to the foumart, the whitterit, the bat, and the vole.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables
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