Mop vs Mot - What's the difference?
mop | mot |
An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
(humorous) A dense head of hair.
(British, dialect) A fair where servants are hired.
(British, dialect) The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.
A made-up face; a grimace.
* (rfdate) (Francis Beaumont) and
* 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
To make a wry expression with the mouth.
A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
* N. Brit. Rev.
* 1970 , John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 32:
(obsolete) A word or a motto; a device.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.
(slang, Irish English) A girl, woman or girlfriend, particularly in the Dublin area.
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As nouns the difference between mop and mot
is that mop is an implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle while mot is a witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.As a verb mop
is to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.As a proper noun Mot is
canaanite god of death and the underworld.mop
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia mop)- He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.
- (Halliwell)
- What mops and mowes it makes! --
- Before you can say 'Come' and 'Go,'
- And breathe twice; and cry 'so, so,'
- Each one, tripping on his toe,
- Will be here with mop and mow.
Derived terms
* mophead * mop squeezer * mop waterDescendants
* German: (l)Verb
(mopp)- to mop (or scrub) a floor
- to mop one's face with a handkerchief
- (Shakespeare)
Anagrams
* * * ----mot
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mot. Compare motto.Noun
(en noun)- Here and there turns up a savage mot .
- ‘He comes from Montreal, in Canada.’ ‘Why?’ she said, repeating Dr Johnson's mot with a forced sneer.
- (Bishop Hall)
- Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.
- (Sir Walter Scott)