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单词 motty
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mottyn.1

Brit. /ˈmɒti/, U.S. /ˈmɑdi/, Scottish English /ˈmɔtɪ/, Irish English /ˈmɑti/
Forms: English regional 1700s– motty, 1800s– mattie (north-western), 1800s– matty (north-western), 1800s– mottey; Scottish 1800s matie, 1800s– mottie; Irish English 1900s– motty.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mot n.5, -y suffix6.
Etymology: Probably < mot n.5 (although this is first attested later) + -y suffix6.Compare also English regional motto in the same sense, recorded by Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Mot sb.2 from Shropshire, Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire, and probably showing an alteration of the present word after motto n.
Scottish, English regional (chiefly northern and midlands), and Irish English.
A mark at which a player aims in quoits, marbles, etc. Cf. mot n.5
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a1796 S. Pegge Two Coll. Derbicisms (1896) 45 Motty, the mark thrown at in quoit-playing.
a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Motty, the mark at which the quoits (or coits) are thrown. Derb.
1853 W. Cadenhead Flights 256 E'en though our pitcher was nearest the mottie.
1893 J. Salisbury Gloss. Words S.E. Worcs. Motty, a mark to aim at with marbles.
1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 103 Motty, t'hauld, when ye laik at ducky, tiggy, an' seea on.
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 214 Mottie, the peg or pin aimed at in quoits, etc.
1996 S. Moylan Lang. Kilkenny 185 Motty, a small stick or stone used as a target in the game of pitch-and-toss.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mottyn.2

Brit. /ˈmɒti/, U.S. /ˈmɑdi/
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mot n.2, -y suffix6.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. In sense 2 probably < mot n.2 + -y suffix6; in sense 1 perhaps of the same origin, or perhaps a different word.
English regional (chiefly northern). Now chiefly historical.
1. Mining. A miner's tally; a stick of wood or disc of metal, notched or stamped in a particular way, placed on a full corf to identify it as the work of a certain miner.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > other mining equipment
dial1681
stick1708
motty1797
nail1839
spiking crib or curb1839
spile1841
bull1849
dag1863
ore bin1867
monitor1873
Billy Fairplay1876
snibble1883
brattice-cloth1885
breaker1885
steam point1895
picking belt1900
self-rescuer1924
rock duster1930
walking dragline1930
1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 20 Nogs and boxes for mottys, or sticks, to distinguish the Corf.
1853 ‘T. Treddlehoyle’ Trip ta Lunnan 25 At top on it..stands a corf fill'd we coils, picks, shuvals, an motties.
1916 Cleckheaton & Spenborough Guardian 18 Feb. 3/4 The defendant was caught..changing a motty on a filled corve... The lad denied the offence, saying he was looking for a tub which had not a motty on.
1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry xviii. 179 Old words like dommy and motty for tub label are still well known, but only our Maltby informants remembered the motty-hanger, who had to fix them.
2000 Evening Post (Nottingham) (Nexis) 1 July I wonder if your readers can help me with my hobby which is collecting brass embossed colliery lamp checks or tallies and motties as they were sometimes called.
2. A word, opinion; esp. in to put one's motty in: to stick one's oar in, to interfere.
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1831 J. Roby Trad. Lancs. 2nd Ser. II. 284 Thou'rt al'ays out wi' thy motty.
1885 R. Holland Gloss. Cheshire (at cited word) Motty, word. ‘What art putting thy motty in for?’
1893 ‘T. Treddlehoyle’ Bairnsla Foaks' Ann. 25 It wor Drychuckle at put hiz motty in this time.
1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry i. 13 The Lancashire criticism of an interfering work~mate, ‘He's awlus stickin' 'is motty in.’
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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