Noun: mot
Sample Sentences
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Here and there turns up a […] savage mot. [1859, unknown author, “Literary Adventure. Life of Douglas Jerrold”, in North British Review:]
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‘He comes from Montreal, in Canada.’ ‘Why?’ she said, repeating Dr Johnson's mot with a forced sneer. [1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 32:]
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1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
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With his big title, an Italian mot
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Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar. [1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:]
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Comrades, mark these three mots — it is the call of the Knight of the Fetterlock [1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like mot
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French mot. Doublet of motto. See: French Nouns '
mot'.