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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1839

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MOWTHER, v. To grope around in the dark.Fif. 1839 A. Bethune Sc. Peasantry 98:
D'ye think that I'm to be keepit mowtherin', mowtherin' here like a mole in a peat-stack, without ever seein' a blink o' licht for the lee-lang day?

[For *mowder < *molder from Muild, sc. to burrow in earth. Cf. also Yks. dial. mouther, a reduced form of Mowdiewort, a mole.]

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