Moth

Quick meaning: Moth is a noun meaning (figurative) Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.

Meaning

(figurative) Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To hunt for moths.
2. A moth bean plant (Vigna aconitifolia).
3. (Ireland, slang) A girlfriend.
4. Any flying insect of the order Lepidoptera not in the superfamily Papilionoidea, most species of which are nocturnal and can be distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
5. Obsolete form of mote.
6. (dated) A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one.

Example Sentences

There are signs of liver affections as weakness, yellow complexion, liver spots, and moth spot like a saddle over the nose.

Craves for sour things, chalks and eggs, fatty people with light brown spots on the face or liver spots, moth patches on forehead and cheek.

To remove moth patches, wash the spots with a solution of common bicarbonate of soda and water several times a day, until the patches are removed, which will usually be in forty-eight hours.

So that, dear lords, if I be left behind, / A moth of peace, and he go to the war, / The rites for which I love him are bereft me, / And I a heavy interim shall support / By his dear absence. Let me go with him.

Word Forms

• moths
• mothing
• mothed

Synonyms for moth

Depending on context, synonyms include matki.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include luna, arctiid, butterfly, caterpillar, budworm, fly.

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