Mot

Quick meaning: Mot is a noun meaning A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.

Meaning

A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.

More Meanings

1. (UK, Ireland, slang) A woman; a wife.
2. (UK, Ireland, slang) A prostitute.
3. (UK, Ireland, slang) A landlady.
4. (obsolete) A word or a motto; a device.
5. (obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.

Example Sentences

Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.

Here and there turns up a […] savage mot.

1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum With his big title, an Italian mot

Comrades, mark these three mots — it is the call of the Knight of the Fetterlock

Word Forms

• mots

Related Words

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