Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Containing motes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Scot. Full of, or consisting of, motes.

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  • adjective Scotland Full of, or consisting of, motes.

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Examples

  • Everything is in the handsomest style, — silver and goold plate at breakfast, lunch, and dinner; and his crest and motty, a beehive, with the Latn word industria, meaning industry, on everything — even on the chany juggs and things in my bedd-room.

    The Great Hoggarty Diamond 2006

  • Everything is in the handsomest style, -- silver and goold plate at breakfast, lunch, and dinner; and his crest and motty, a beehive, with the Latn word

    The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • "Gerrard is one of the biggest cheat and its time that refs did something bout it." motty

    TEAMtalk Football News 2010

  • "Gerrard is one of the biggest cheat and its time that refs did something bout it." motty

    TEAMtalk Football News 2010

  • The colour scheme has nothing to do with it. motty, you have to ensure that the entire edges of the tiles match up, black-to-black and white-to-white.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

  • “shining motty through the reek,” to use the expression of a bard of that time and country, illumined the grey hairs of the old man, and the sacred page which he studied.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • ` ` shining motty through the reek, '' to use the expression of a bard of that time and country, illumined the grey hairs of the old man, and the sacred page which he studied.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • "shining motty through the reek," to use the expression of a bard of that time and country, illumined the grey hairs of the old man, and the sacred page which he studied.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

  • "shining motty through the reek," to use the expression of a bard of that time and country, illumined the grey hairs of the old man, and the sacred page which he studied.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • "Nathan Sumner, I say; thou'rt al'ays out wi 'thy motty if a body speaks.

    Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821

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