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A wooden shack in Upton, Berkshire Downs, 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).
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /naʊt/, [naʊʔ]
- Rhymes: -aʊt
- (Midlands) IPA(key): /nəʊt/, [nəʊʔ]
- Rhymes: -əʊt
- Homophone: note
Dialectal pronunciation of naught. Akin to West Frisian neat (“nothing”), German nichts (“nothing”).
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- (Northern England) Naught, nothing.
- 2004, “It Was Supposed to Be So Easy”, in Mike Skinner (lyrics), A Grand Don’t Come For Free, performed by The Streets:
Today I have achieved absolutely nowt / In just being out of the house, I've lost out
- 2004, “It Was Supposed to Be So Easy”, in Mike Skinner (lyrics), A Grand Don’t Come For Free, performed by The Streets:
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From Middle English nowte, noute, nawte, naute, borrowed from Old Norse naut, from Proto-Germanic *nautą. Cognate with Old English nēat, English neat.
- nolt (dialectal or obsolete)
nowt (plural nowts)
- (Scotland and Northern England) An ox.
- (Scotland and Northern England) A herd of cattle.
- (figurative, 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[1], 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.
- 1929, James William Marriott, editor, The Best One-act Plays of 1931[1], G.G. Harrap, published 1932, page 162:
- Frank Graham, editor (1987), “NOWT”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
- “nowt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “nowt”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.
- Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “nowt”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group[2], archived from the original on 2024-09-05.
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
- “Nowt”, in Palgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group[3], archived from the original on 2024-09-05, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896, →OCLC.
- Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[4]
- Town, town, wo'n't, won't, wont
nowt
- Alternative form of nought
nowt
- Alternative form of nought
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- Alternative form of nought
nowt
- Alternative form of nought
From Old English nāwiht.
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