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. archaic 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
- Representing pronunciation. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English wat, from Old English wāt. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Ye see a notorious exchange of the construction, and application of the words in this: _I wot what I meane_; and _I meane what I wot_, and in the other, _company the knaue Carrier_, and _carrie a knaue in your company_.”
“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!”
“Joe Barnes -- as that's the name wot you was known by in England -- I'm _determined_ to get that 'ere purse.”
“I don't kno yet wether I'd better axcept his offer to become a pollytishun, cos I've got my mind set on the jurnerlistick perfesshun, and its bout the eesiest way to mak a fortune and a name wot I culd get.”
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“Eyetalian Prince by dis time, wid a title wot ud reach across dis room an 'jewels ter match, "and The Croak looked at his friend in undisguised admiration.”
“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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“Look' ere, 'ses Ginger,' are you going to tell me in plain English wot it's all about, or are you not? ”
“Dean, aka wot we renaemed himsDeanie Baby, the cat weir katsittink for, goes MEEP!”
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“I remember the Lancers at baseball, and a young gunner sitting on a limber, licking his pencil and writing to the dictation of a farrier-sergeant with his arm in a sling: "... an 'tell Sammy' is Dad 'as got a Sikh sword wot' e shall 'ave if' e's bin good, an 'a silk shawl for' is Mum - stay, make that 'is dear Mum an' my best gel ...”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wot’.
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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wit
with wit mess (between less & ness)
wit, wot, wote, wost, wist, weeting, sense, wite, witticism, insulse, wittiness, wittiness witness and 31 more...
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
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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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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play words
words for a play
pert, vicissitude, melancholy, vexation, gaud, attestation, renunciation, wax, wrought, sunder, antipodes, reckoning and 236 more...
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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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Dewitful
visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise
revision, advisor, ideal, witty, witness, veda, druid, penguin, hadal, idea, story, history and 269 more...
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The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of ...
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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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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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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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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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...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wot.
Casey "AND THE FAIR-DAY GOOSE IS ALMOST MINE, I WOT." From Wizard and Glass by Stephen King. Jan 10, 2011
asativum Coulda sworn PG Wodehouse had an exchange involving the phrase "wot's wot, what?" Jun 21, 2008
johnmperry A variant of wit is wot, which is almost unknown outside of its negative: wotless, "unknowing, ignorant" (pretty much synonymous with witless) and the phrase God wot, meaning "God knows". Jun 20, 2008
bilby Wot is it? Jun 8, 2008
oroboros Tow in reverse. Nov 2, 2007