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語源 1

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

代名詞

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

同意語

• noot (Geordie)

名詞

nowt (uncountable)

1. (Northern England, Sussex, Berkshire) Naught, nothing.
2. (Lancashire, Yorkshire) A person of no importance; a worthless person; a ne'er-do-weel.
   • 1847, Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights:

     Bud yah're a nowt, and it's no use talking - yah'll niver mend o'yer ill ways, but goa raight to t' divil, like yer mother afore ye!

   • 1849, Charlotte Bronte, Shirley:

     ... and great hectoring nowts like yond' Irish Peter, Helstone's curate.

   • 1898, The Cornhill Magazine, volume 78, page 697:

     A ornery beggar, a nowt, a rapscallion, a shop egg, a devvle from yed to foot, at some time or other were applied to him.

派生語

副詞

nowt (not comparable)

1. (Northern England) Naught, nothing.

反意語

• owt

語源 2

From 中期英語 nowte, noute, nawte, naute, borrowed from Old Norse naut, from Proto-Germanic *nautą. Cognate with 古期英語 nēat, English neat.

別の表記

• nolt (dialectal or obsolete)

名詞

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.

参照

• 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 5 September 2024.
• 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 5 September 2024, 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]

アナグラム

• Town, town, wo'n't, won't, wont

副詞

nowt

1. alternative form of nought

形容詞

nowt

1. alternative form of nought

名詞

nowt

1. alternative form of nought