foumart
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English fulmard, from Old English fūl (“foul”) + mearþ (“marten”), in reference to its offensive smell.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfuːmə(ɹ)t/, /ˈfuːmɑː(ɹ)t/
Noun
foumart (plural foumarts)
- (chiefly Scotland) A European polecat; a member of the Mustelidae family.
Further reading
- “foumart”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “foumart”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.