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单词 motyhole
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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.
As a term of abuse for a woman: a slut, a bitch.
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a1450 Castle Perseverance (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).
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