Definitions for Moth

Moth moth

Spelling: [mawth, moth]
IPA: /mɔθ, mɒθ/

Moth is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in Moth (hmot).

Definitions for Moth

noun

  1. any of numerous insects of the order Lepidoptera, generally distinguished from the butterflies by having feathery antennae and by having crepuscular or nocturnal habits.
  2. clothes moth.

Origin of Moth

before 950; Middle English motthe, Old English moththe; akin to German Motte, Old Norse motti

Examples for Moth

She had been to an orph—to a place once with moth—with Her and seen the aprons herself.

The moth of this destructive caterpillar is called Leucania unipuncta.

What, then, was the fluttering of the moth but a monstrous intimation.

As I said to myself, I was a moth, I wanted to play with fire.

Her mood was all obsessed now with the conviction that this was the end to her life of a moth.

But when the moth saw his candle he brightened, and fluttered over to it.

The bullet and the moth have torn And riddled well the dolmans dim.

Harvests perished like a moth that is singed in a candle-flame.

This was the question for which the sprite had stopped the moth.

I have told you often how the palace in Florence is shabby, eaten up with moth and rust.

Word Value for Moth
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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