nowt

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• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /naʊt/,
  • (West Riding of Yorkshire) IPA^(key): ,
• Rhymes: -aʊt
• (Midlands) IPA^(key): /nəʊt/,
• Rhymes: -əʊt
• Homophone: note

Dialectal pronunciation of naught. Akin to West Frisian neat (“nothing”), German nichts (“nothing”).

nowt

1. (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

• noot (Geordie)

nowt (uncountable)

1. (Northern England, Sussex, Berkshire) Naught, nothing.

nowt (not comparable)

1. (Northern England) Naught, nothing.

• owt

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)

1. (Scotland and Northern England) An ox.
2. (Scotland and Northern England) A herd of cattle.
3. (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, 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.

• 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, 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, archived from the original on 2024-09-05, from F M T 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

• Town, town, wo'n't, won't, wont

nowt

1. Alternative form of nought

nowt

1. Alternative form of nought

nowt

1. Alternative form of nought

nowt

1. Alternative form of nought

From Old English nāwiht.

• IPA^(key): /nʌut/

nowt

1. (Southern Scots) naught, nothing

   Synonyms: nihin, nithin, nuhin, noot, nowts

   Antonym: owt