mott
/mˈɑt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative spelling of mot (“woman”).
name
A surname.
name
A ghost town in Missouri.
name
A small city, the county seat of Hettinger County, North Dakota, United States.
noun
Acronym of mycobacteria other than tuberculosis, Pathogenic bacteria of the genus Mycobacterium not causing tuberculosis.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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.""
- "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."
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NTM
atypical mycobacteria