Pott vs Mott - What's the difference?
pott | mott |
An old size of paper, 12.5 x 15 inches.
(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.
As proper nouns the difference between pott and mott
is that pott is while mott is .pott
English
Etymology 1
Etymology 2
. Possibly from originally bearing a watermark of a pot or from a manufacturer's or merchant's name.Noun
(-)- pott paper