mots

Noun (1)

mot (plural mots)

1. A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
   • Here and there turns up a […] savage mot.1859, unknown author, “Literary Adventure. Life of Douglas Jerrold”, in North British Review
2. (obsolete) A word or a motto; a device.
   • With his big title, an Italian mot1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
3. (obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.
   • Comrades, mark these three mots — it is the call of the Knight of the Fetterlock1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co....

Noun (2)

mot (plural mots)

1. (Ireland, UK, slang) 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.1789, G. Parker, “The Sandman's Wedding”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896
2. (Ireland, UK, slang) A prostitute.
3. (Ireland, UK, slang) 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.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 217

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