Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. First and third person singular present tense of wit2.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. First and third persons singular indicative present of wit.
Wiktionary
- v. To know.
- v. First-person singular simple present form of wit.
- v. third-person singular simple present indicative form of wit.
- interj. what (humorous misspelling intended to mimic certain working class accents)
GNU Webster's 1913
Etymologies
- Middle English wat, from Old English wāt; see weid- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Christian Bale IS an awesome actor and everybody can appreciate an artist doing well or wot is required of him or her in their craft.”
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“You oughtn't to get mix'd up in wot didn't concern you!”
“Have watched it happen to many a man low on totem pole, and to me too but that sounds like paranoia, others see it but act like gnu when the lion decides to a mothers calf and stand around bleeting “wot is ‘appening to me kid””
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“Dean, aka wot we renaemed himsDeanie Baby, the cat weir katsittink for, goes MEEP!”
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“Most text abbreviations were phonetically based, such as "wot" for "what" and combination texts, such as "C U L8r".”
“If the mother dies,' she was saying, 'wot' appens? ”
“An 'wot're you snifflin' about?" he burst out at me, with renewed rage.”
“I should know, wot 'avin been a computer systems manager - but I failed.”
“I wouldn't necessarily blame the fat cats its Clegg wot did it I wonder if he is between the sheets.”
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“Thou shouldst address me verily as Friar, I wot, or else I shall break thy pate forthwith with mine cudgel, after I have lustily eaten this pastry.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wot’.
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
tool, lever, nap, pool, leer, leek, desserts, strop, doom, ukiah, yaws, ward and 213 more...
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The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha
Words I met while reading Cervantes' story.
lance, hale, lanthorn-jaws, knight-errantry, nay, expostulate, puling, massy, agreeable delusions, pasteboard, bestrid, sallied and 148 more...
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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Dewitful
visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise
revision, advisor, ideal, witty, witness, veda, druid, penguin, hadal, idea, story, history and 245 more...
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Really Cool Three-Letter Words
None of your "the" and "get" here. No, no. This is the place for auk and sty, and words of that ilk.
One might think that being limited to only three letters would prevent many words fro...auk, sty, ilk, ani, owl, zit, ink, eau, rum, pus, pwe, pyx and 105 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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End in -ot
Just what it says. Words that end in -ot.
wainscot, ascot, marmot, jot, ocelot, spot, blot, scot, lot, shot, dot, snot and 219 more...
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Across the Pond
Silly stereotypical Britishisms.
jolly well, bloody, chap, i say, blimey, bollocks, governor, love, cheerio, good day, righto, spot of tea and 8 more...
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Words 2011
New words that I've read in 2011
mendacity, drogue, caisson, fakement, abattoir, specious, barbican, inimical, argot, wot, sotto voce, nonce and 76 more...
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redfox's Words
moxie, boustrophedon, dendrite, deizen, numps, lovesome, whortle, ptarmigan, wot, deixis, litotes, zeugma and 32 more...
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