nowt

¹ American  

[nout] / naʊt /

noun

Scot. and North England.

PLURAL

nowt

1. an ox.

2. a herd of cattle.

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nowt ² American  

[noht] / noʊt /

noun

British Dialect.

1. naught; nothing.

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nowt ¹ British  

/ naʊt /

noun

1. a dialect word for nothing

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nowt ² British  

/ naʊt /

noun

1. a dialect word for bullock cattle

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Etymology

Origin of nowt

1150–1200; Middle English < Scandinavian; compare Old Norse naut, neat ²

Example Sentences

When challenged about the offensive post, he says: "There's nowt racist about that. To me, there's nowt wrong with that, what I've put there."

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"If in doubt, say nowt" is how you might colloquially describe the approach, resisting the temptation to be drawn into commentary about the president's actions for fear of provoking a blast of his ire.

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Former Cherries striker Dominic Solanke, nowt at Spurs, explained the learning curve with Iraola's methods in an interview with the Times last year.

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“People travel around the world and this is it. With no tourists there’d be no jobs, no wages, no nowt. They rely on it, don’t they?”

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Dennis Norwell "The police used to run round this village with shields, banging on them: boom, boom, boom. Frightening kids. It wasn't right. They used to shove their pay packets in your faces, that was the worst thing, saying 'Look what we've got here and you're on strike'. And we had nowt."

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