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See also: wót

English

(archaic Category:English terms with archaic senses#WOT) To know (in the sense of knowing a fact).
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John:
  He that walketh in the darke, wotteth not whither he goeth.
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- 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:
  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.
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- 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:
  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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- 1855, John Godfrey Saxe, Poems, Ticknor & Fields, published 1855, page 121:
  She little wots, poor Lady Anne! Her wedded lord is dead.
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- 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Garden of Proserpine" in Poems and Ballads, 1st Series, London: J. C. Hotten, 1866:
  They wot not who make thither […]
- 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:
  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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- 1890, William Morris, “Men Meet in the Market of Silver-stead”, in The Roots of the Mountains […], London: Reeves and Turner […], →OCLC, page 353:
  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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- 1988, Terry Pratchett, Mort, Corgi, published 1988, page 91:
  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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Conjugation

Conjugation of *wot*
	present tense	past tense
infinitive	(to) wot

1st-person singular	wot	wotted
2nd-person singular	wot, wottest^†	wotted, wottedst^†
3rd-person singular	wots, wotteth^†	wotted
plural	wot	wotted

subjunctive	wot	wotted

imperative	wot	—

participles	wotting	wotted

^† Archaic or obsolete.

Etymology 2

From wit, in return from Old English Category:English terms derived from Old English#WOT witan.

Verb

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first-person singular present indicative of wit
third-person singular simple present indicative of wit

Etymology 3

Representing pronunciation.

Interjection

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Eye dialect spelling of whatCategory:English eye dialect#WOT.
Wot, no bananas? ― (popular slogan during wartime rationing)Category:English terms with usage examples#WOT
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
  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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