mouldwarp
/ˈməʊldwɔːp/
mouldwarp noun: a mole, Talpa europaea.
Noun
mouldwarp (plural mouldwarps)
- A mole, Talpa europaea.
- For either they be puffed vp vvith pride, / Or fraught vvith enuie that their galls do ſvvell, / Or they their dayes to ydleneſſe diuide, / Or drovvnded lie in pleaſures vvaſtefull vvell, / In vvhich like Moldvvarps nouſling ſtill they lurke, / Vnmyndfull of chiefe parts of manlineſſe, / And do...1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, verso
- as the moldiwarp in Æsop told the fox […], you complain of toys, but I am blind, be quiet […].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
Forms of mouldwarp
| plural | mouldwarps |
|---|---|
| alternative form | modiwarp |
| alternative form | molewarp |
| alternative form | moldwarp |
| alternative form | modiwort |
| alternative form | moldiwarp |
| alternative form | moudiwarp |
| alternative form | moudiwart |
| alternative form | moudiewarp |
| alternative form | mouldiwarp |
| alternative form | mowdiwart |
| alternative form | mowdiwort |
Origin of mouldwarp
From Middle English moldewarpe, moldewarp, moldewerp, (also molwarpe, molewarpe), from Old English *moldeweorpe, ("mole"; literally "earth-thrower"; compare Old English wandeweorpe (“mole”)), from Proto-Germanic *muldawurpiz (“earth-thrower, mole”), equivalent to mould + warp. Cognate with Scots malwart, modewarp (“mole”), Dutch molworp (“mole”), Low German mulworp, molworm (“mole”), German Maulwurf (“mole”), Danish muldvarp (“mole”), Swedish mullvad (“mole”), Icelandic moldvarpa (“mole”).
Questions about mouldwarp
- What does mouldwarp mean?
- Mouldwarp means a mole, Talpa europaea.
- What part of speech is mouldwarp?
- Mouldwarp is a noun.
- How do you pronounce mouldwarp?
- Mouldwarp is pronounced /ˈməʊldwɔːp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of mouldwarp?
- The plural of mouldwarp is mouldwarps.
Words near mouldwarp in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mouldwarp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mouldwarp.wav.
Cite this entry: “mouldwarp.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mouldwarp. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.