Meaning of Mot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The ancient Canaanite god of death and the underworld.
2. Ministry of Transport test; an annual test of roadworthiness for British cars over three years old.
   British
3. A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
4. A woman; a wife.
   Ireland, UK, slang
5. An aggregate which meets the Ministry of Transport standard as a compact subbase.
   British
6. A word or a motto; a device.
   obsolete
7. A prostitute.
   Ireland, UK, slang
8. management of technology.
9. A note or brief strain on a bugle.
   obsolete
10. A landlady.
    Ireland, UK, slang
11. microwave oven transformer
12. A member of the tribe; i.e. a Jew
13. magnetooptical trap

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

En roulant de vergne en vergne

“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.”

“I can’t drive over this week, the car is in for its MOT.”

“It will need some MOT at the bottom and then a layer of washed sand.”

“And, of course, she and her family would be welcome in our home too, with bagels, crembos—and even the kind of four course meal we were lucky enough to enjoy with them, our fellow MoTs.”

“This isn’t the first time American Apparel founder Dov Charney, who is Jewish, has gotten himself in hot water with his fellow MOTs.”

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