c1720 Bewick & Graham xlviii, in F. J. Child (1890) IV. vii. 148/1 Then he stuck his sword in a moody-hill.
1803 in W. Scott (ed. 2) III. 103 He has pitched his sword in a moodie-hill.
1928 J. G. Horne 11 You'd socht a mowdie-hill to fa' on, Instead o' this ramstamran ca' on.
1989 L. Lochhead i. v. 27 Sae the Kirk Assembly are makkin' a mountain oot o' a mowdie-hill.