motty
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See also: Motty
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɒti
Adjective[edit]
motty (comparative more motty, superlative most motty)
- (Scotland, dated) Full of, or consisting of, motes.
- 1847, Hugh Miller, First Impressions of England and Its People:
- the motty dust reek raised by the workmen
- 1865, Alexander Smuth, A Summer in Skye:
- Where the motty sunbeam from the pane with its great knob of bottle-green struck him.
References[edit]
- “motty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.