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Word Origin

Motley - Something "motley", in the past, was something whose fur skin was mottled, of different colors. Further in the past, that something was specifically a weasel, called mustela, "big mouse," in Latin. A "motley" crew, in that view, would have been a weasely bunch of lads, not far from its current sense of riff-raff, or at least raffishness.


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June 12, 2008 8:23 AM
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