Mot

In return for Mary pretending to be his girlfriend at the school reunion, Tom had to agree to repair her car at his garage and get it through the MOT free of charge.

The MOT found some serious defects in Mary's car.

Here and there turns up a […] savage mot.

‘He comes from Montreal, in Canada.’ ‘Why?’ she said, repeating Dr Johnson's mot with a forced sneer.

1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum With his big title, an Italian mot

Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.

Comrades, mark these three mots — it is the call of the Knight of the Fetterlock

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.

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.