Mot vs Mota - What's the difference?

mot | mota |

As a preposition mot

is with.

to meet, to encounter.

From (etyl) mot. Compare motto.

(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)

(head)

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

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