mot
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Is mot a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A word or a motto; a device.Examples: "1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum With his big title, an Italian mot"; "Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar."obsolete
2. (obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.Examples: "Comrades, mark these three mots — it is the call of the Knight of the Fetterlock"obsolete
noun (English)
1. (UK, Ireland, slang) A woman; a wife.Examples: "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."IrelandUKslang
2. (UK, Ireland, slang) A prostitute.IrelandUKslang
3. (UK, Ireland, slang) A landlady.Examples: "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."IrelandUKslang
noun (English)
1. (British) Ministry of Transport test; an annual test of roadworthiness for British cars over three years old.Examples: "I can’t drive over this week, the car is in for its MOT."Synonyms: vehicle inspectionBritish
2. (British) An aggregate which meets the Ministry of Transport standard as a compact subbase.Examples: "It will need some MOT at the bottom and then a layer of washed sand."British
3. (business) management of technology.
4. (electronics) microwave oven transformer
5. (physics) magnetooptical trap
Definition source: Wiktionary