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1. archaicTo know (a fact).

   They wot not who make thither […]

   1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Garden of Proserpine" in Poems and Ballads, 1st Series, London: J. C. Hotten, 1866

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   He that walketh in the darke, wotteth not whither he goeth.

   1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John

   Take heed to false harlots, and more, ye wot what. / If noise ye heare, / Looke all be cleare: / Least drabs doe noie thee, / And theeues destroie thee.

   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

   VVots thou vvho's returnd, / The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a ſcarre-crovv / The VVarres have gnavv'd his garments to the skinne: […]

   1637, Thomas Heywood, The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject. […], London: […] Nich[olas] and John Okes, for James Becket, […], →OCLC, Act III, signature E4, verso

   She little wots, poor Lady Anne! Her wedded lord is dead.

   1855, John Godfrey Saxe, Poems, Ticknor & Fields, published 1855, page 121

   I sang these things long since and knew them not; "Lo, here is love, or there is love, God wot, This man and that finds favour in his eyes," I said, "but I, what guerdon have I got?

   1862-1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Laus Veneris

alternative wott · alternative wotte · alternative wote

1. first personindicativepresentsingularfirst-person singular present indicative of wit
2. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of wit

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1. pronunciation spellingEye dialect spelling of what.

   Wot, no bananas?

   (popular slogan during wartime rationing)

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   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.

   1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

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1. pronunciation spellingEye dialect spelling of what.

   Wot’s in! Great games! […] WHO DUZ WOT

   1992 March, Phil King, editor, Zzap!64, Ludlow, Shropshire: Europress Impact Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 5–6

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   Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got / The pip wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot.

   1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13

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1. Singlishalternativenot comparableAlternative form of what (used to contradict an assumption)