wot

See also: wót

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: wŏt, IPA^(key): /wɔt/
• enPR: wŏt, IPA^(key): /wɒt/
• enPR: wät, IPA^(key): /wɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt
• Homophones: watt, what (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

An extension of the present-tense form of wit (verb) to apply to all forms.

Verb

wot (third-person singular simple present wott, present participle ing, simple past and past participle wotted)

1. (archaic) To know.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John XII:

     He that walketh in the darke, wotteth not whither he goeth.

   • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, “74. A Digression.”, in A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC, stanza 4:

     Take heed to false harlots, and more, ye wot what. / If noise ye heare, / Looke all be cleare: / Least drabs doe noie thee, / And theeues destroie thee.

   • 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 […]

Etymology 2

From wit, in return from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English witan.

Verb

wot

1. first-person singular present indicative of wit
2. third-person singular simple present indicative of wit

Etymology 3

Representing pronunciation.

Interjection

wot

1. Eye dialect spelling of what.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin 2003, p. 319)

     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.

   Wot, no bananas? (popular slogan during wartime rationing)

Etymology 4

Adverb

wot (not comparable)

1. (Singlish) Alternative form of wat (used to contradict an assumption)

Anagrams

• OTW, TOW, Tow, WTO, owt, tow, two

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Kriol

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English what.

Pronoun

wot

1. (interrogative) what

Synonyms

• wani/wanim

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Lower Sorbian

Preposition

wot (with genitive)

1. Superseded spelling of wót.

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English ward.

Noun

wot

1. ward