Messes of mottage

• mess of pottage: Esau's sells his birthright to brother JAcob for a lentil stew ("pottage") in Genesis 25.29–34
• 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