motty

• mottie

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• Rhymes: -ɒti

motty (comparative more motty, superlative most motty)

1. (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.

• “motty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.