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Mort vs Mott - What's the difference?

mort | mott |

As nouns the difference between mort and mott

is that mort is death; especially, the death of game in hunting while mott is a prostitute.

As proper nouns the difference between mort and mott

is that mort is a diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton while Mott is {{surname}.

mort

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
  • A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The sportsman then sounded a treble mort .
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
    • Derived terms
    * mort cloth * mort stone

    Etymology 2

    Compare Icelandic (margt), neuter of (margr), "many".

    Noun

  • A great quantity or number.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • There was a mort of merrymaking.

    Etymology 3

    Shortening of (mortal).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
    • Antonyms
    * immort English clippings

    Etymology 4

    Uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A three-year-old salmon.

    • Etymology 5

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, archaic) A woman; a female.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    mott

    English

    Alternative forms

    * mot

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.