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prettygoodwordmoit (MOYT) - n., foreign matter such as a burr, seed, or piece of stick found in wool.
Related words: moity, adjective meaning having moits, used of dirty wool, and moit as a verb, to remove the moits (from wool). This is a Northern England variation on mote, small particle, where originally the -i- was used to indicate the long /oh/ sound instead of the final -e, but then reinterpretted as indicating an /oy/ sound.
---L.
Related words: moity, adjective meaning having moits, used of dirty wool, and moit as a verb, to remove the moits (from wool). This is a Northern England variation on mote, small particle, where originally the -i- was used to indicate the long /oh/ sound instead of the final -e, but then reinterpretted as indicating an /oy/ sound.
---L.
