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