Brewer's: Proudfute

(Oliver). A boasting bonnet-maker of Perth. His widow is Magdalen or Maudie. (SirWalterScott: Fair Maid of Perth.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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