Messes of mottage
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- Shem as Jacob, Shaun as Esau
- mess: disorderly or dirty accumulation, heap, or jumble:
- mess: a serving of soft, semi-liquid food
- motte: a mound, hillock
- a midden heap
- mot (French) word
- -age (French suffix) : the result, purpose, or outcome of a verb or noun, similat to -ing or -age in English
- a mess or jumble of verbiage
- marmottage (French): muttering