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Mot vs Mott - What's the difference?

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Mot is an alternative form of mott.


As nouns the difference between mot and mott

is that mot is a witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot or mot can be (slang|irish english) a girl, woman or girlfriend, particularly in the dublin area while mott is (uk|slang) a prostitute.

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.
    • ----

    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.