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† motyholen.Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: motey adj., hole n. Etymology: Origin uncertain. The second element is apparently hole n.; the first element is perhaps motey adj. (although this is first attested much later) with sense ‘dusty, dirty’, or perhaps mothy adj.1 (although this also is first attested much later; compare form mote s.v. moth n.1), or perhaps related to West Frisian mot sow, female rabbit, ungainly person (also in the compound motbaarch, slut, slattern, lit. ‘sow-pig’), Middle Dutch motte, mutte sow (Dutch mot (regional) sow, (archaic) loose woman, whore), Middle Low German mutte, motte sow (German regional (Low German: East Friesland) mut, mutte sow, German regional (Low German: Westphalia) Mutt (slang) vulva), Middle High German musse loose woman, whore (German Mutze (slang) loose woman, whore, vulva), of uncertain etymology. Obsolete. rare. a1450 (1969) l. 2120 Þerfor fast, fowle skowte, Putte Mankynd to us owte, Or of me þou schalt haue dowte, Þou modyr, þou motyhole! This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.a1450 |