A now-extinct English dialect word from the rural Midlands, blending 'hardi' (hardy, bold) with 'shrew'.
A now-extinct English dialect word from the rural Midlands, blending 'hardi' (hardy, bold) with 'shrew'. The field mouse earned the tag for its fearlessness in raiding grain stores despite its tiny size.
The farmer grumbled that a hardishrew had gnawed clean through the bottom of his seed sack overnight.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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A British dialect term historically applied to small shorebirds — particularly the dunlin or sandpiper — that scurry along beaches in a way that resembles a mouse darting across sand. Also used in the archaic sense for a jird, a small burrowing rodent of arid regions. Both uses are largely extinct in everyday speech.
(UK, dialect) A bird, the dunlin or sandpiper.
(Scotland, UK, _, dialect) A weasel or stoat.
(US) A vole.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A field mouse.