Mott
name, noun, slang ·1 syllable ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm. Texas
"They were rolling southward on the International. The timber was huddling into little dense, green motts at rare distances before the inundation of the downright, vert prairies. This was the land of the ranches; the domain of the kings of the kine."
- 2 Alternative spelling of mot (“woman”). alt-of, alternative
"The Hon. TOM DASHALL in the mean time was in close conversation with his mott in the corner of the Box, and was getting, as Sparkle observed, "rather nutty in that quarter of the globe.""
- 3 Acronym of mycobacteria other than tuberculosis, Pathogenic bacteria of the genus Mycobacterium not causing tuberculosis. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
- 4 The vulva. slang
"The truck was going past Wollaton Park and Barry was still yapping about this chick's hairy mott and yet it was only background muffle to Desmond."
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A ghost town in Missouri.
- 3 A small city, the county seat of Hettinger County, North Dakota, United States.
Example
More examples"We need all our young people to know that Clara Barton and Lucretia Mott and Sojourner Truth and Eleanor Roosevelt and Dorothy Height, those aren’t just for Women’s History Month. They’re the authors of our history, women who shaped their destiny."
Etymology
Probably ultimately from French motte; compare motte.
See mort (“woman”), etymology 5.
* As an English surname, spelling variant of Motte. * Also as an English surname, from a medieval pet form of Matilda. Also see Mould. * As a German surname, from the root of the noun Moder (“swamp, decomposing mass”).
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