• (British) IPA: /məʊ/

mot (plural mots)

1. A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.

   • Here and there turns up a […] savage mot.

   • 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York 2007, p. 32:

     ‘He comes from Montreal, in Canada.’ ‘Why?’ she said, repeating Dr Johnson's mot with a forced sneer.

2. (obsolete) A word or a motto; a device.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lvcrece (First Quarto), London: Printed by Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664 ↗:

     Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.

3. (obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.

• (RP) IPA: /mɒt/

mot (plural mots)

1. (UK, Ireland, slang) A woman; a wife.
2. (UK, Ireland, slang) A prostitute.
3. (UK, Ireland, slang) A landlady.

1. The ancient Canaanite god of death and the underworld.

• (British) IPA: /ɛm.əʊ.tiː/

mot (plural mots)

1. (British) Ministry of Transport test; an annual test of roadworthiness for British cars over three years old.

   I can’t drive over this week, the car is in for its MOT.

2. (business) management of technology.
3. (electronics) microwave oven transformer
4. A member of the tribe; i.e. a Jew
   • 2012, Gil Troy, "Finding Members of the Tribe" ↗, The Daily Beast

     And, of course, she and her family would be welcome in our home too, with bagels, crembos—and even the kind of four course meal we were lucky enough to enjoy with them, our fellow MoTs.

   • 2013, Stephanie Butnick, "American Apparel’s Black Nail Polish Color is Called 'Hassid'" ↗, Jewcy

     This isn’t the first time American Apparel founder Dov Charney, who is Jewish, has gotten himself in hot water with his fellow MOTs.

• French: contrôle technique