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A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
- 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.
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A word or a motto; a device.obsolete
- 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum With his big title, an Italian mot
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A note or brief strain on a bugle.obsolete
- Comrades, mark these three mots — it is the call of the Knight of the Fetterlock
MOT
mәu6 senses · 74 ms
Level C2
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A woman; a wife.IrelandUKslang
- Come wed, my dear, and let's agree, / Then of the booze-ken you'll be free; / No sneer from cully, mot, or froe / Dare then reproach my Bess for Joe; / For he's the kiddy rum and queer, / That all St. Giles's boys do fear.
- And we shall caper a-heel-and-toeing, / A Newgate hornpipe some fine day; / With the mots, their ogles throwing, / Tol lol, &c. / And old Cotton humming his pray.
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A prostitute.IrelandUKslang
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A landlady.IrelandUKslang
- After some altercation with the "mot" of the "ken" (mistress of the lodging-house) about the cleanliness of a knife or fork, my new acquaintance began to arrange "ground," &c., for the night's work.
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Alternative form of mott.alt-ofalternative
- We drew up in a body, with a small mot of timber close by to which we could easily retreat.