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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A witty or incisive remark.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An obsolete form of mote.
  2. n. A word; a motto.
  3. n. (F. pron. mō). A saying, especially a brief and forcible or witty saying; a bon-mot.
  4. n. A note on the bugle, hunting-horn, or the like; also, a note in the musical notation for such instruments.
  5. n. An obsolete or dialectal form of moat.
  6. n. A mark for players at quoits.
  7. n. A small grove or clump of timber on a prairie, sometimes likened to an ‘island.’
  8. n. An ancient mechanical device used in India and other countries of the Orient for lifting water by animal power. It consists of a bucket or water-tight bag, raised by means of a rope fastened over a pulley, two bullocks or other animals being attached to the end of the rope.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
  2. n. obsolete A word or a motto; a device.
  3. n. obsolete A note or brief strain on a bugle.
  4. n. slang, Ireland A girl, woman or girlfriend, particularly in the Dublin area.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. May; must; might.
  2. n. obsolete A word; hence, a motto; a device.
  3. n. A Gallicism A pithy or witty saying; a witticism.
  4. n. A note or brief strain on a bugle.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a compulsory annual test of older motor vehicles for safety and exhaust fumes
  2. n. a clever remark

Etymologies

  1. From French mot. Compare motto. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Old French, word, saying, probably from Vulgar Latin *mōttum, from Late Latin muttum, grunt, mutter, of imitative origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • ruzuzu Mmmm. Fresh mot. Apr 13, 2011

  • bilby Why, who is this mot mot motting Bilibin? Apr 13, 2011

  • abcedertree Bilibin went on. "Ce n'est ni trahison, ni lâcheté, ni bêtise; c'est comme à Ulm..." It was as if he fell to pondering, searching for a phrase: "C'est...c'est du Mack. Nous somme mackés," he concluded, feeling that he had uttered a mot, and a fresh mot, a mot that would be repeated.

    - War and Peace, Tolstoy, 2007 translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Apr 13, 2011

  • chained_bear "fr. parole, watch-word." Oct 9, 2008

  • fearraigh n.(pronounced phonetically) Dublin slang for wife or girlfriend. Largely considered derogatory, seeing as it derives from a former slang word for 'vagina'. Dec 13, 2006

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