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mot

noun
/məʊ/UK/mɒt/UK/ɛm.əʊ.tiː/UK

Etymology

Probably from Dutch mot (“woman”). See also mort (“woman”) and moth (“girlfriend”).

  1. derived from mot

Definitions

  1. A witty remark

    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.

  2. A word or a motto

    A word or a motto; a device.

    • 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum With his big title, an Italian mot
    • Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.

  3. A note or brief strain on a bugle.

    • Comrades, mark these three mots — it is the call of the Knight of the Fetterlock
  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. A woman

      A woman; a wife.

      • 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.

    2. A prostitute.

    3. A landlady.

      • 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.

    4. The ancient Canaanite god of death and the underworld.

    5. Initialism of Ministry of Transport (a former name of the Department for Transport) still…

      Initialism of Ministry of Transport (a former name of the Department for Transport) still in use relating to the MOT test it made compulsory in 1961, and three grades of aggregate it specified for road, path and sports court subbase layers.

    6. An MOT test (an annual test of roadworthiness for most UK motor vehicles over three years…

      An MOT test (an annual test of roadworthiness for most UK motor vehicles over three years old, or four years old in Northern Ireland).

      • I can’t drive over this week, the car is in for its MOT.

    7. Any regular checkup.

    8. An aggregate which meets one of the three Ministry of Transport standards for use in…

      An aggregate which meets one of the three Ministry of Transport standards for use in road, path and sports court subbase layers.

      • MOT Type 1 gives the strongest base, MOT Type 3 the best drainage, and MOT Type 2 is intermediate for both

    9. Initialism of management of technology.

    10. Initialism of microwave oven transformer.

    11. Initialism of member of the tribe (“a Jew”).

      • And, of course, she and her family would be welcome in our home too, with bagels, crembos—and even the kind of four course meal we were lucky enough to enjoy with them, our fellow MoTs.
      • This isn’t the first time American Apparel founder Dov Charney, who is Jewish, has gotten himself in hot water with his fellow MOTs.

    12. Initialism of magnetooptical trap.

    13. To subject a motor vehicle to an MOT test.

      • I've got to get the car MOTed by Friday.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mot. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA