wot
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See also: wót
Contents
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Australia) enPR: wŏt, IPA(key): /wɔt/
- (UK) enPR: wŏt, IPA(key): /wɒt/
- (US) enPR: wät, IPA(key): /wɑt/
- Rhymes: -ɒt
- Homophones: watt, what (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Etymology 1[edit]
An extension of the present-tense form of wit (verb) to apply to all forms.
Verb[edit]
wot (third-person singular simple present wots, present participle wotting, simple past and past participle wotted)
- (archaic) To know.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John XII:
- He that walketh in the darke, wotteth not whither he goeth.
- 1855, John Godfrey Saxe, Poems, Ticknor & Fields 1855, p. 121:
- She little wots, poor Lady Anne! Her wedded lord is dead.
- 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Garden of Proserpine" in Poems and Ballads, 1st Series, London: J. C. Hotten, 1866:
- They wot not who make thither [...].
- 1889, William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains, Inkling Books 2003, p. 241:
- Then he cast his eyes on the road that entered the Market-stead from the north, and he saw thereon many men gathered; and he wotted not what they were [...].
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John XII:
Etymology 2[edit]
From wit, in return from Old English witan.
Verb[edit]
wot
- first-person singular present indicative of wit
- third-person singular simple present indicative form of wit
Etymology 3[edit]
Representing pronunciation.
Interjection[edit]
wot
- Eye dialect spelling of what.
- 1859, Then, wot with undertakers, and wot with parish clerks, and wot with sextons, and wot with private watchmen (all awaricious and all in it), a man wouldn't get much by it, even if it was so. — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin 2003, p. 319)
- Wot, no bananas? (popular slogan during wartime rationing)
Etymology 4[edit]
Adverb[edit]
wot (not comparable)
- (Singlish) Alternative form of wat (used to contradict an assumption)
Anagrams[edit]
Kriol[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
wot
- (interrogative) what
Synonyms[edit]
Lower Sorbian[edit]
Preposition[edit]
wot
- Superseded spelling of wót.
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