nowt

English

A wooden shack in Upton, Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, UK, for selling cider. At the time the photograph was taken, the shack was closed and had a sign stating "Nowt left in here" (indicating to potential thieves that nothing of value is left in the shack while it is unattended).

Pronunciation

  • (Northern England) IPA(key): /naʊt/, /nɒʊt/
  • Rhymes: -aʊt, -ɒʊt
  • (English Midlands) IPA(key): /nəʊt/
  • Rhymes: -əʊt
  • Homophone: note

Etymology 1

Dialectal pronunciation of naught. Akin to German nichts.

Pronoun

nowt

  1. (Northern England) Naught, nothing.
Synonyms

Noun

nowt (uncountable)

  1. (Northern England, Sussex) Naught, nothing.
Derived terms

Adverb

nowt (not comparable)

  1. (Northern England) Naught, nothing.
Antonyms

Etymology 2

From Middle English, from Old Norse. Cognate with Old English nēat.

Noun

nowt (plural nowts)

  1. (Scotland and Northern England) An ox.
  2. (Scotland and Northern England) A herd of cattle.
  3. (figuratively, Scotland and Northern England) A dumb, crass, or clumsy person, or a person who is difficult or stubborn.
    • 1929, James William Marriott, editor, The Best One-act Plays of 1931‎, G.G. Harrap, published 1932, page 162:
      A hunner guineas for the heid o' that nowt Renwick, and him no' sae very far awa' frae your very nose at this meenit.

References

  • The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN
  • nowt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,
  • Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
  • A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896,
  • Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977

Anagrams

Scots

Etymology

From Old English.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nʌut/

Pronoun

nowt

  1. (South Scots) naught, nothing

Synonyms

Antonyms

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