philomot
English
editEtymology
editSee filemot.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editphilomot (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of filemot.
- 1712 January 14 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, January 3, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 265; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
- One of them was blue, another yellow, and another philomot
References
edit- “philomot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.