mott

See also: Mott, mött, and møtt

English

Alternative forms

• motte

Etymology 1

Probably ultimately from French motte; compare motte.

Noun

mott (plural motts)

1. (Texas) A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm. [from 19th c.]
   • 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 173, column 2:

     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.

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 39:

     We continued northwest, the grass tall with scattered thick motts of oak and the mesquites with their flickering leaves and the yuccas in bloom with their white flowers.

Etymology 2

See mort (“woman”), etymology 5.

Noun

mott (plural motts)

1. Alternative spelling of mot (“woman”)
   • c. 1821, Pierce Egan, Real Life in London‎, page 223:

     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."

2. (slang) The vulva.
   • 1978, Pat McGrath, People in the Crowd, page 150:

     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.