Sc. Obs. Also 7 thulmard, 9 thummert, thoumart. A dialectal alteration of FOUMART, polecat: see TH (6).

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1696.  A. Telfair, True Relat., 12 (Edinb. ed.). By the way his Dog Catched a Thulmard.

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1785.  Burns, Twa Herds, vi. The thummart, wil’-cat, brock and tod, Weel kend his voice.

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1850.  J. D. Brown, Ballads (1856), 98 (E.D.D.). His cleidin was skins o’ the thoumart and tod.

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  transf.  1822.  Galt, Sir A. Wylie, x. There never was surely a droller like thummert o’ a creature seen.

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