Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Me "Mot"???

  • 15-07-2005 8:44pm
    #1
    Dutchboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭


    Right lads I've no idea how to spell it but I'm referring to the derogatory term for one's girlfriend. Some people say its a dub saying others link it to Bray. How do you spell it and any idea of where it comes from?


Comments

  • #2
    grimloch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭grimloch


    It's spelled mot and. According to an internet source:
    internet site. wrote:
    Meaning girlfriend or wife. I have to conflicting sources for the word. First and in my experience most widely accepted from "maith an cailin"(excuse the grammar) second possible origin is a middle dutch word meaning prostitute.


  • #3
    Kevin_rc_ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Kevin_rc_ie


    derogatory term

    really?


  • #4
    grimloch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭grimloch


    Only time I've heard it was in a Dustin the Turkey song and from one of the people in work using it as a joke word.


  • #5
    Board@Work
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭Board@Work


    i agree i don't think it's derogatory..
    I once met an old couple (both in their eighties) at a doctors office and the man referred to his wife as his mot.. It was actually quite charming


  • #6
    Dutchboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭Dutchboy


    well the last girl I was with threatened to dump me if I ever called her that so i guess it is derogatory. Guess you had better start using a different pet name kevin:p
    thanks for the info


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    Dutchboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭Dutchboy


    btw, didn't know bray was such a hot bed of right wing capitalist endeavor:p isn't the bray festival on this week..legend of a place


  • #8
    Board@Work
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭Board@Work


    Dutchboy wrote:
    well the last girl I was with threatened to dump me if I ever called her that so i guess it is derogatory.


    maybe shes a snob cos it is seen as a working class slang..

    no offence ;)


  • #9
    Dutchboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭Dutchboy


    none taken. she did always call herself a lady :p she happens to be from bray


  • #10
    Board@Work
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭Board@Work


    Nobodys perfect.. except possibly me..

    they're all ladies from Bray .....ahem... ;)


  • #11
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Which site did you get that off grimloch?


  • Advertisement
  • #12
    kasintahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭kasintahan


    1. mot
    In Cumbria (England), the word "Mot" is used by teenagers to mean Girl.
    "Are you bringing your mot with you tonight"?

    "I was walking down the road, when this mot came up & asked me out".
    Source: Marra, Feb 1, 2005

    2. mot
    unreally cool guy, sex appeal, after sir motsalot
    hey...mot rocks my world

    Urban Dictionary


Advertisement