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wot
- See also: WOT
English
Pronunciation
- (General Australian) enPR: w?t, IPA(key): /w?t/
- (UK) enPR: w?t, IPA(key): /w?t/
- (US) enPR: wät, IPA(key): /w?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
- 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 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
From wit, in return from Old English witan.
Verb
wot
- first-person singular present indicative of wit
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wit
Etymology 3
Representing pronunciation.
Interjection
wot
- Pronunciation 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.
- (popular slogan during wartime rationing)
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin 2003, p. 319)
Etymology 4
Adverb
wot (not comparable)
- (Singlish) Alternative form of wat (used to contradict an assumption)
Anagrams
- OTW, TOW, Tow, WTO, owt, tow, two
Kriol
Etymology
From English what.
Pronoun
wot
- (interrogative) what
Synonyms
- wani/wanim
Lower Sorbian
Preposition
wot (with genitive)
- Superseded spelling of wót.
Middle English
Verb
wot
- first/third-person singular present indicative of witen
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English ward.
Noun
wot
- ward
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wost
English
Etymology
From Middle English wost, from Old English w?st (also w?st), from Proto-Germanic *waist, second person singular indicative of Proto-Germanic *witan? (“to wit, know”). More at English wit.
Verb
wost
- (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of wit
Anagrams
- OTWs, SWOT, Stow, TOWs, Tows, ow'st, stow, swot, tows, twos, wots
wost From the web:
- what waist
- what waist size is a 6
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