[moh] 
| 1. | a pithy or witty remark; bon mot. |
| 2. | Archaic. a note on a horn, bugle, etc. |
| mot (mō) n. A witty or incisive remark. [French, from Old French, word, saying, probably from Vulgar Latin *mōttum, from Late Latin muttum, grunt, mutter, of imitative origin.] |
"The mot juste is an expression which readers would like to buy of writers who use it, as one buys one's neighbour's bantam cock for the sake of hearing its voice no more." [Fowler]
