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nought
English
Alternative forms
- naught, nowt
Etymology
From Middle English nought, noght, no?t, from Old English n?wiht, n?wiht (nay +? a +? wight), which in turn comes from ne-?-wiht, which was a phrase used as an emphatic "no", meaning "not a thing". Eventually this was reduced into nought, nawt and then not. Doublet of naught.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n??t/
- Rhymes: -??t
Noun
nought (plural noughts)
- Nothing; something which does not exist.
- A thing or person of no worth or value; nil.
- (Britain) Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game.
- (Britain) The figure or character representing, or having the shape of, zero.
Derived terms
- bring to nought
- come to nought
- dreadnought
- noughties
- noughty
- set at nought
Translations
Adjective
nought
- (obsolete) Good for nothing; worthless.
- 1611, Authorized King James translation of Proverbs 20:14:
- It is nought, it is nought, saith the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
- 1611, Authorized King James translation of Proverbs 20:14:
- Wicked, immoral.
Verb
nought (third-person singular simple present noughts, present participle noughting, simple past and past participle noughted)
- To abase, to set at nought.
- 1393, Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, translated by Grace Warrack, 1901
- In this naked word sin, our Lord brought to my mind, generally, all that is not good, and the shameful despite and the utter noughting that He bare for us in this life, and His dying; and all the pains and passions of all His creatures, ghostly and bodily; (for we be all partly noughted, and we shall be noughted following our Master, Jesus, till we be full purged, that is to say, till we be fully noughted of our deadly flesh and of all our inward affections which are not very good;)
- 1983, Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, page 25
- The nought which is you has devoured the style and been sustained for a while as a non-you until the style is emptied out by the noughting self.
- 2001, William Desmond, Ethics and the Between, page 507
- Your usefulness is zero, your worth zero, and as zero you deserve to be treated as nothing, and in the extreme, noughted.
- 1393, Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, translated by Grace Warrack, 1901
Adverb
nought
- To no extent; in no way; not at all.
- Not.
Pronoun
nought
- Nothing; zero.
See also
- naught
- ought
References
- nought in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Notes:
Anagrams
- hognut, hotgun, hutong
Middle English
Alternative forms
- naught, nawght, na?t, nau?t, naw?t, noght, noughte, noughtt, nowght, no?t, nou?t, nou?te, now?t, nou?th, nou?the, nouht, nowhte, noust, nofte, nogt, nogthe, nowt, nout, nouth, noth
- (early) noht, naht, nohht, nawiht, naut
Etymology
From Old English n?wiht, n?wiht; equivalent to ne +? ought.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?u?xt/, /nau?xt/, /n?xt/, /naxt/
Pronoun
nought
- nothing, none
Descendants
- English: nought, naught, nowt
- Scots: nout
- Yola: noucht
References
- “nought, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Adverb
nought
- not (negates the accompanying verb)
- not (to no degree, extent, or way)
Descendants
- English: nought, naught, nowt
References
- “nought, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Adjective
nought
- iniquitous, wicked
- valueless, worthless
- ineffectual, depleted
- powerless, useless
- null and void, invalid
- (rare) unfitting, improper
Descendants
- English: nought, naught
- Scots: nocht
References
- “nought, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Noun
nought (uncountable)
- nothing, nought
- nothingness, void
- (rare) evil, iniquity
- (rare) That which is worthless
- (rare) zero (number)
Descendants
- English: nought, naught, nowt
- Scots: nocht
References
- “nought, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “nought, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Conjunction
nought
- and not
References
- “nought, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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nougat
English
Etymology
From French nougat, from Occitan nogat, from noga (“nut”), from Latin nux (“nut”). Compare Spanish nuégado.
Pronunciation
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?nu????/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?n???t/, /?nu????/
- (US, Canada) enPR: no?o?gu?t IPA(key): /?nu??t/
Noun
nougat (countable and uncountable, plural nougats)
- A confection of honey or sugar and roasted nuts, often with other ingredients.
Translations
See also
- turrón
Further reading
- nougat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- toguna
Danish
Noun
nougat
- brown nougat, Viennese nougat
See also
- fransk nougat (“white nougat”)
Finnish
Alternative forms
- nugaa
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?nu???/, [?nu???]
Noun
nougat
- nougat
Usage notes
As the inflection looks awkward, it may sometimes be advisable to use the Finnicized form nugaa (“nougat”).
Declension
Anagrams
- guanot
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nu.?a/
Noun
nougat m (plural nougats)
- nougat
Further reading
- “nougat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- nugat
Etymology
From French nougat.
Noun
nougat m (definite singular nougaten, indefinite plural nougater, definite plural nougatene)
- nougat
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- nugat
Etymology
From French nougat.
Noun
nougat m (definite singular nougaten, indefinite plural nougatar, definite plural nougatane)
- nougat
Portuguese
Noun
nougat m (plural nougats)
- nougat (a confection of honey and roasted nuts)
- Synonym: nogado
Swedish
Noun
nougat ?
- nougat
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