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PRONUNCIATION:

(MOI-tee)

MEANING:

adjective: Containing moits -- foreign particles in wool, such as straw or bark.

ETYMOLOGY:

From moit (a small impurity in wool), a variant of mote (speck), from Old English. Earliest documented use: 1844. Moity is sometimes used as a variant spelling of moiety (a half or portion).

USAGE:

“Every day’s train brought down trucks upon trucks of bales, as if the interior of Australia was one colossal wool store, just being emptied at the command of an enchanter. But the ‘heavy and moity’ parcels were not touched by the cautious operators at any price.”
Rolf Boldrewood; The Squatter’s Dream; Macmillan; 1890.

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