Mot vs Mort - What's the difference?

mot | mort |

As a preposition mot

is with.

As a noun mort is

roach; a small fish.

mot

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) mot. Compare motto.

Noun

(en noun)

A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.

* N. Brit. Rev.

Here and there turns up a savage mot .

* 1970 , John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 32:

‘He comes from Montreal, in Canada.’ ‘Why?’ she said, repeating Dr Johnson's mot with a forced sneer.

(obsolete) A word or a motto; a device.

(Bishop Hall)

* Shakespeare

Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.

(obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.

(Sir Walter Scott)

Etymology 2

Noun

(head)

(slang, Irish English) A girl, woman or girlfriend, particularly in the Dublin area.

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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

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