mot

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  1. noun A witty or incisive remark.

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  • What makes my heart soar is hearing a clever bon-mot, or turns of phrase that show wit and intelligence. —  DVD Times
  • OLBERMANN: Look, bon mot is the guy who's always constantly spouting criticisms, that bon mot has a certain implication of talking too much. —  Media Blog
  • Móscôw - some AmE speakers say Móscòw mósque Islam * mósk AmE = BrE māsk face = másque ball, cf. músk mosquìto - skêeto môte eye = môat castle móthball one word motìf pattern mô -, cf. môtive reason moûe pout = moô cow môuld mouldy —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • I really wish to thank Mohan for his feedback, patience and will to send Marquer un texte en gras: * mot*, souligner un texte: _mot_. —  Planet Python
  • "You have a nice instinct for the mot juste_," she informed him Oh, no," he disclaimed, modestly. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)
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  1. French, from Old French, word, saying, probably from Vulgar Latin *mōttum, from Late Latin muttum, grunt, mutter, of imitative origin.

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  1. from French mot = Provencal mot = Spanish Portuguese mote = Italian motto (later English motto), a word, motto, from Middle Latin muttum, a word, L. a mutter, a grunt, from Latin muttire, mutire, mutter: see mutter.
  2. from Middle English mote, mot, from Old French mot, a note of a horn (another use of mot, a word), from Latin muttum, a murmur, grunt: see mot.
  3. See moat.
  4. Marathi moṭ, Telugu moṭa, motu.
 

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