Ethos vs Mott - What's the difference?
ethos | mott |
The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.
(rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct.
(UK, slang) A prostitute.
(Dublin, slang) A girlfriend.
(US, chiefly Texas) A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm.
*about 1900 , O. Henry,
*:They were rolling southward on the International. The timber was huddling into little, dense green motts at rare distances before the inundation of the downright, vert prairies. This was the land of the ranches; the domain of the kings of the kine.