bon mot
Origin of mot
Fr, a word, saying from Classical Latin muttum, a grunt, muttering from Indo-European echoic base an unverified form mu- from source mutter, mope, mewmot
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mot
noun
A witty or incisive remark.
Origin of mot
French from Old French word, saying probably from Vulgar Latin mōttum from Late Latin muttum grunt, mutter of imitative originTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
- (slang, Ireland) A girl, woman or girlfriend, particularly in the Dublin area.
Proper noun
- Canaanite god of death and the underworld.
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mot - Computer Definition
(OpenView Managed Object Toolkit) An OpenView toolkit from HP for developing network management applications based on CMIS. The toolkit contains library routines that handle the transmission and receipt of CMIS requests and responses.
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