"wot" meaning in English

See wot in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

IPA: /wɔt/ [General-Australian], /wɒt/ [UK], /wɑt/ [General-American]
enPR: wŏt [General-Australian], wŏt [UK], wät [General-American] Rhymes: -ɒt Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} wot (not comparable)
  1. (Singlish) Alternative form of what (used to contradict an assumption) Tags: Singlish, alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Alternative form of: what (extra: used to contradict an assumption)
    Sense id: en-wot-en-adv-wDbEgJHX Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English links with redundant alt parameters, Singlish, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 10 10 2 34 33 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 12 15 15 1 30 28
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 4

Interjection

IPA: /wɔt/ [General-Australian], /wɒt/ [UK], /wɑt/ [General-American]
enPR: wŏt [General-Australian], wŏt [UK], wät [General-American] Rhymes: -ɒt Etymology: Representing pronunciation. Head templates: {{en-interj}} wot
  1. Eye dialect spelling of what. Tags: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Alternative form of: what
    Sense id: en-wot-en-intj-MmLP~8GP Categories (other): English eye dialect, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 10 10 2 34 33 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 12 15 15 1 30 28 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 10 10 1 36 35
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Pronoun

IPA: /wɔt/ [General-Australian], /wɒt/ [UK], /wɑt/ [General-American]
enPR: wŏt [General-Australian], wŏt [UK], wät [General-American] Rhymes: -ɒt Etymology: Representing pronunciation. Head templates: {{head|en|pronoun|||||||||||||||||||head=}} wot, {{en-pron}} wot
  1. Eye dialect spelling of what. Tags: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Alternative form of: what Coordinate_terms: woat, wut
    Sense id: en-wot-en-pron-MmLP~8GP Categories (other): English eye dialect, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries, English pronouns Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 10 10 2 34 33 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 12 15 15 1 30 28 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 10 10 1 36 35 Disambiguation of English pronouns: 44 56
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Verb

IPA: /wɔt/ [General-Australian], /wɒt/ [UK], /wɑt/ [General-American] Forms: wots [present, singular, third-person], wotting [participle, present], wotted [participle, past], wotted [past]
enPR: wŏt [General-Australian], wŏt [UK], wät [General-American] Rhymes: -ɒt Etymology: From Middle English woten, from Old English weotan. An extension of the present-tense form of wit (verb) to apply to all forms. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|woten}} Middle English woten, {{inh|en|ang|witan|weotan}} Old English weotan Head templates: {{en-verb}} wot (third-person singular simple present wots, present participle wotting, simple past and past participle wotted)
  1. (archaic) To know (in the sense of knowing a fact). Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-wot-en-verb-BgqiEKB0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /wɔt/ [General-Australian], /wɒt/ [UK], /wɑt/ [General-American]
enPR: wŏt [General-Australian], wŏt [UK], wät [General-American] Rhymes: -ɒt Etymology: From wit, in return from Old English witan. Etymology templates: {{der|en|ang|witan}} Old English witan Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} wot
  1. first-person singular present indicative of wit Tags: first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular Form of: wit
    Sense id: en-wot-en-verb-FuUDFVaE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 10 10 2 34 33 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 12 15 15 1 30 28 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 10 10 1 36 35
  2. third-person singular simple present indicative of wit Tags: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Form of: wit
    Sense id: en-wot-en-verb-zuFLYFRb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 10 10 2 34 33 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 12 15 15 1 30 28 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 10 10 1 36 35
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John:",
          "text": "He that walketh in the darke, wotteth not whither he goeth.",
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          "ref": "1878, Thomas Tusser, “74. A Digression.”, in Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC; republished as W[illiam] Payne, Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editors, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], 1878, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 166:",
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          "text": "VVots thou vvho's returnd, / The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a ſcarre-crovv / The VVarres have gnavv'd his garments to the skinne: […]",
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          "ref": "1855, John Godfrey Saxe, Poems, Ticknor & Fields, published 1855, page 121:",
          "text": "She little wots, poor Lady Anne! Her wedded lord is dead.",
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          "ref": "1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, \"The Garden of Proserpine\" in Poems and Ballads, 1st Series, London: J. C. Hotten, 1866",
          "text": "They wot not who make thither […]"
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          "ref": "1889, William Morris, “Otter and His Folk Come into Mid-mark”, in A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark […], London: Reeves and Turner […], →OCLC, page 126:",
          "text": "Ever he gazed earnestly on the main battle of the Romans, and what they were doing, and presently it became clear to him that they would outgo him and come to the ford, and then he wotted well that they would set on him just when their light-armed were on his flank and his rearward, and then it would go hard but they would break their array and all would be lost: […]",
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          "text": "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; for though there were weapons amongst them, yet were they not all weaponed, as far as he could see.",
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          "ref": "1988, Terry Pratchett, Mort, Corgi, published 1988, page 91:",
          "text": "They sped under the moonlight as silent as a shadow, visible only to cats and to people who dabbled in things men were not meant to wot of.",
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          "text": "Wot, no bananas? ― (popular slogan during wartime rationing)",
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          "ref": "1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "VVots thou vvho's returnd, / The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a ſcarre-crovv / The VVarres have gnavv'd his garments to the skinne: […]",
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          "text": "She little wots, poor Lady Anne! Her wedded lord is dead.",
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          "ref": "1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, \"The Garden of Proserpine\" in Poems and Ballads, 1st Series, London: J. C. Hotten, 1866",
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          "text": "Ever he gazed earnestly on the main battle of the Romans, and what they were doing, and presently it became clear to him that they would outgo him and come to the ford, and then he wotted well that they would set on him just when their light-armed were on his flank and his rearward, and then it would go hard but they would break their array and all would be lost: […]",
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          "text": "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; for though there were weapons amongst them, yet were they not all weaponed, as far as he could see.",
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          "ref": "1988, Terry Pratchett, Mort, Corgi, published 1988, page 91:",
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