or mott, mort (q.v.), subs. (old).—1. See quots. 1785, 1851, and MORT.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. MOT. A girl, or wench.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
1823. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, i. 266. The MOT of the ken (nick-name for matron of the establishment).
2. (common).—See quot. 1819. For synonyms, see BARRACK-HACK and TART.
1819. J. H. VAUX, Memoirs, 189. MOTT, a blowen, or woman of the town.
1821. P. EGAN, Life in London, i. 223. The Hon. Tom Dashall … was in close conversation with his MOTT.
1828. MAGINN, Vidocq Versified. With the MOTS their ogles throwing.
1887. W. E. HENLEY, Villon’s Good-Night, A MOT’S good-night to one and all!
