mot

From French mot. Compare motto.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məʊ/

mot (plural mots)

1. 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.

2. (obsolete) A word or a motto; a device.

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   • Shakespeare

     Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.

3. (obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.

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Probably from Dutch mot (“woman”). See also mort (“woman”), etymology 5.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɒt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt

mot (plural mots)

1. (Britain, Ireland, slang) A woman; a wife.
   • 1789, G. Parker, “The Sandman's Wedding”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris‎, published 1896:

     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.

   • 1829 July 1, Vidocq, Eugène François; Maginn, William, transl., “Noctes Ambrosiana [En roulant de vergne en vergne]”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine‎, number 45, translation of En roulant de vergne en vergne, page 133:

     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. (Britain, Ireland, slang) A prostitute.
3. (Britain, Ireland, slang) A landlady.
   • 1851, Mayhew, Henry, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 217:

     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.

• OMT, OTM, TMO, Tom, tom

From Proto-Albanian *māti ‘time’, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₁tis ‘measurement’, deverbative of *meh₁- ‘to measure’; compare Old English mǣþ ‘measure’, Lithuanian mẽtas ‘time’, Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis) ‘plan’.[1] Sense shift from ‘time’ to ‘weather’ influenced by Latin tempus ‘time; weather’ (compare Romanian timp, French temps).

mot m (indefinite plural mote, definite singular moti, definite plural motet)

1. weather
2. year

• motkeqe

• moshë

From Late Latin muttum (“sound”), from muttire (“mutter, make a mu-noise”), of onomatopoeic origin.

mot m (plural mots)

1. word

   Synonym: paraula

• joc de mots

• “mot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

mot

1. fashion

   Şimdi pek mot emiş ağarğan saçlar

   Ah men şu motluqtan uzaq olaydım.

• Rhymes: -ɔt

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From Middle Dutch motte. Cognate to English moth, German Motte.

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

1. nocturnal butterfly-like insect: moth

• nachtvlinder

An onomatopoeia.

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

1. a slap, a blow, a hit (physical aggression with hands or fists)
2. (by extension) a quarrel, tiff

From Middle Low German mutte.

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

1. a female pig; a sow
2. (by extension) a lewd woman

• keldermot
• steenmot

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

1. light rain; drizzle

• motregen

From Late Latin muttum (“sound”), from muttire (“mutter, make a mu-noise”), of onomatopoeic origin. Has almost entirely replaced parole in Modern French, perhaps because of its shortness.

• IPA^(key): /mo/
• Rhymes: -o

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mot m (plural mots)

1. word
2. note, (short) message

• mot d'ordre

• “mot” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• TOM

mot m (plural mots)

1. word

• French: mot

• IPA^(key): /muːt/

mot n (definite singular motet, uncountable)

1. courage

mot

1. to, towards

   Kjør mot byen.

   Drive towards town.

2. against, from

   En paraply skjermer deg mot regnet!

   An umbrella protects you from the rain!

3. against, versus

   Det var et kappløp mot tiden.

   It was a race against time.

• “mot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /muːt/

mot n (definite singular motet, uncountable)

1. courage

• motlaus
• ovmot

mot

1. to, towards

   Han kom mot dei.

   He came towards them.

2. against, from; for

   Har de noko som verkar mot tett nase?

   Do you have anything that works for a stuffy nose?

3. against, versus

   Kven skal me spela mot?

   Who shall we play against?

• “mot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• mòt

From Late Latin muttum

mot m (plural mots)

1. word

• ġemōt

• IPA^(key): /moːt/

Inflected forms.

mōt

1. First-person singular present form of motan
2. Third-person singular present form of motan

From Proto-Germanic *mōtą. Cognate with Old High German muot, Old Norse mót (Swedish möte).

mōt n

1. meeting, assembly

• Middle English: mot, ȝemot
  • English: moot
  • Scots: mut, mote

Late Latin muttum

mot m (oblique plural moz or motz, nominative singular moz or motz, nominative plural mot)

1. word

• parole (more common)

• French: mot

See molt

mot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mote)

1. Alternative form of molt

mot

1. Alternative form of molt

• IPA^(key): /mot/

Latin multus.

• mout

mot

1. much; alot

From Late Latin muttum.

mot m (oblique plural motz, nominative singular motz, nominative plural mot)

1. word

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “muttum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 63, page 303

From Old Norse mót, from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, *gamōtą.

• IPA^(key): /muːt/

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mot n

1. (chiefly west Sweden) interchange; a large junction where two or more roads meet.

mot

1. to, towards

   Kör mot stan.

   Drive towards the town.

2. against

   Det där är mot lagen!

   That’s against the law!

3. versus

mot

1. alcohol
2. alcoholic beverage

mot (plural mots)

1. mother

• jifat

• pal

• fat

• dalefat
• hipal
• jipal
• lefat
• lufat
• lüfat
• pal

mot m (plural mots)

1. word

• motî

From Old Norse mót, from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, *gamōtą.

• IPA^(key): /muːt/, [mɯ́ᵝːt], [móʊ̯ːt]

  Rhymes: -úːt

mot n or f (definite singular mote or mota)

1. Mould, form to cast something in.
2. Part of a wheel ring.
3. (as an adverb, with dative) To meet.

   gamot

   to go to meet

4. (as an adverb, with dative) Towards.

   han kåmme gɑen mot gɑlåm

   he came walking towards the estate

• kulmot n
• moot
• motar
• moteför
• tegelmot n