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▪ I. wot, v. arch.|wɒt|
Forms: (see below).
[var. of wit v.1, due to the carrying over of the preterite-present stem wǭt (earlier and northern wāt) into other parts of the verb. The substitution occurs first in the 2nd pers. sing. (wāt, wǭt for wāst, wǭst) and the plur. (for wĭten) of the present tense, and appears in northern texts from the end of the 13th century. In the 14th cent. the new forms wotest and woteth (wotis) appear. The infin. woten occurs early in the 15th cent., and wotte, wote, wot in the 16th, together with the pres. pple. wotting. The pa. tense wotted is an archaism of the 19th cent.]
trans. and intr. To know. Freq. const. with of. (See wit v.1)
1. 2nd sing. pres. ind. αnorth. and Sc. 4–5 wat, 4–6 wate, (4 whate, quat, vat), 6 wait, (vait). β4 whote, 5 woot, wot.
αa1300Cursor M. 766 Wat þou [Gött. quat. Fairf. wate] quarfor? 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 2666 Ne þou whate never in what stede þou sal dyghe. 1375Barbour Bruce v. 241 Thou vat nocht quha is thi frend. 1423Jas. I Kingis Q. cxxix, Lo, wate thou quhy? c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. xiii. 5247 (Cott.) Quhar was God, wat þou oucht, Befor þat hewyn and erde was wroucht? 1549Compl. Scot. xv. 126 Thou vait that ane man vil haue childir of deferent conditionis. c1550Rolland Crt. Venus i. 404 Thryis als mekle scho reuis, That thou not wait. a1568in Bannatyne MS. (Hunter, Club) 133 Thow wate nocht quhen that it will licht.
βa1352Minot Poems (ed. Hall) xi. 4 Þou whote wham I mene. c1400Non-Cycle Myst. Plays iii. 40 Now wot þou wele of all oure wo. a1425Cursor M. 3231 (Trin.) Wende in hye vnto mesopothanye, þere þou woot oure frendes wone.
2. pres. ind. pl. αnorth. and Sc. 4–6, 8 wat (4 quat, 5 vat), wate (5 quate), 5–6 wait (6 vait, waite). β4–6 wote (4 woteþ, wotin, 5 north. woteys), 5 woote, 5–6 woot, wott(e, 5–9 wot (5 whot).
αa1300Cursor M. 4729 Wel wat [Fairf. wate] yee Mi stiward ioseph al fedes me. Ibid. 14571 We wat [Gött. quat] mast quat er þai þar. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 1432 Ofte chaunges þe tymes here, als men wele wate. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints vi. (Thomas) 172 Of pollucione of flesche grovis, as ve vat, giltines. c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. xi. 2931 (Cott.) As ȝhe wate and has herde tel. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 151 Changeing of men that wate the kingis secretis..may do grete scathe. 1513Douglas æneis x. Prol. 66 Lik as the sawle of man is ane, we wait, Havand thre poweris distinct and separate. 1549Compl. Scot. v. 32 Thai vait nocht quhat thing is the varld. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 58 Quhilkes to cal scheip or gait..we knawe nocht, nor wat we weil. 1720Ramsay Prosp. Plenty 171 Right wiel they wate That truth and honesty hauds lang the gate. 1724― Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 66 Now wat ye wha I met yestreen?
β1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 39 Þys clerkys..wote þat ys to wetyn. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 51 We woot wel þat þe kepynge of largesse ys right herd. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 2432 They..whot nat wher to saue or lese. c1460Play Sacr. 334 Ye wott what I haue sayd. 1521Fisher Serm. Wks. (1876) 315 We woot that that people of the Iewes was a shadow of the chrysten people. c1530Latimer in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) I. App. xliii. 119 Ye call the Scripture the new Lerninge; which..is eldre than any lerninge, that ye wote to be the old. 1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. ii. 90 Then you may come and see the picture..that you wot of. 16..Middleton etc. Old Law iii. i, I have found out the true age..of the party you wot on. 1657Trapp Comm. Ps. xxxii. 5 Wot you what?..he hath confessed himself as guilty..as his man. 1753–4Richardson Grandison (1810) IV. xvii. 141 Wot ye not the indelicacy of an early present, which you are not obliged to make? 1841James Brigand iv, There are more dangers around than you wot of. 1874Motley John of Barneveld xi. II. 30 ‘Don't forget to caress the old gentleman you wot of,’ said the Advocate frequently.
3. a. 2nd sing. pres. ind. 5 wotest, -ist, -ys(t, 6– wottest, 6 wottst, wotste, Sc. wattis.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. ii. 74 Wottest thou not wel..that every shepherde ought..to seke his sperkelande sheep. c1400Beryn 45, I myȝte nat lyve els, þowe wotist. 1448–9J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes 360 Wotys thow qwat me thynkyth best? 1470–85Malory Arthur i. xxiv. 72 This knyght is a man of more worship than thou wotest of. 1549Coverdale Erasm. Par. Rom. Prol. {cross} iv b, Thou woteste not what thou teachest. 1579Hake Newes out of Powles (1872) A vij, For well thou wotste, if thyrsty were my minde..Then would I [etc.]. a1585Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 426 Thou wattis not quhat thou wald. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxxvi, Wottest thou that Lucas de Beaumanoir..is now himself at Templestowe? 1844Mrs. Browning Crowned & Buried xv, I would have The dead whereof thou wottest, from that grave.
b. 3rd sing. pres. ind. 4 wotis, 6 woteth, -ith, 6 wottyth, 6– wotteth, 9 wots; Sc. 6 wattis, 7 waits, 9 wats.
13..Cursor M. 10506 (Gött.) He wotis þis haue i ȝernid ay. 1523Skelton Garl. Laurel 1431 Lytill wotith the goslyng what the gose thynkith. Ibid. 1438 Wele wotith the cat whos berde she likkith. 1531Dial. Laws Eng. ii. liii. 44 It is therefore no synne to say he wottyth not where he is. 1535Coverdale Baruch iii. 32 He that woteth all thynges, knoweth her. 1577St. Aug. Man. (Longman) 27 O kyngdome without ende;..where the day..woteth not what time meaneth. 1602J. Davies (Heref.) Mirum in Modum (Grosart) 6/1 Through which she wots what works hir woe or weale. 1633Sir A. Johnston (Wariston) Diary (S.H.S.) 81 Quho waits bot the Lord wil deal bountifully with his servant once this weak as he did [etc.]. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xi, Let her know that he she wots of remained here..expecting to see her. 1879E. Arnold Lt. Asia viii. 22 The ant wots of its ways, The white doves know them well.
4. inf. 5 woten, 7 wote; 6 wotte, 6– wot. Also subj. 6 wote; imp. 6 wot, wat, 7 wote.
1414Rolls of Parlt. IV. 59/1 Which is gret doel to alle the Kynges trewe lieges..to woten of swiche meschiefs done and used withinne the Rewme. 1509Fisher Ps. cxlii. Wks. (1876) 253 No meruayle it is yf than the sely soule..wote not what to saye. 1530Palsgr. Ep. Ded. p. iij, So that we myght wotte for the kepynge of trewe congruite in that tonge..how [etc.]. 1575A. Fleming Virg. Bucol. iii. 8 If so much thou know not, then, well wot, the goate is mine. 1601Holland Pliny xxx. iii. II. 406 Wote well, that ordinarily the water thereof is not good. 1605Camden Rem., Lang. 19 Conscience, they called Inwit, as that which they did inwardly wit and wote, that is, know certainely. 1813Scott Trierm. i. xi, The..Monarch full little did wot That she smiled, in his absence, on brave Lancelot. 1875Morris æneids iii. 379 The other things the Parcæ still ban Helenus to wot.
5. pres. pple. (and vbl. n.). 6 wottyng, 6– wotting.
1523Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) I. 42 People browght to extreme distresse and not wottyng how to lyue. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 120 Wottyng and weenyng, were those two thingis one. 1574A. L. Calvin's Four Serm. ii, He stammered, not wotting what to say. 1624Gataker Transubst. 60 Well wotting that there was no such thing. 1817Scott Harold iii. iii, Hardly wotting why, He doff'd his helmet's gloomy pride. 1887Morris Odyss. xiv. 451 And neither the Queen nor Laertes the Elder were wotting of this.
6. pa. tense. 9– wotted.
1818Scott Rob Roy viii, That honest gentleman's terror communicated itself to him, though he wotted not why. 1853Huxley in Life & Lett. (1900) I. 114 Having rushed into more responsibility than I wotted of. 1901‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness (1902) 217 He will see many things he wotted nothing of.
▪ II. wot|wɒt|
non-standard written form of what pron., a.1, etc.
1829[see slap-up a. b]. 1865[see water n. 6 f]. 1898[see chivvy n.]. 1925[see garden n. 1 f]. 1949E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxvii. 50 I'll tell you wot izza comin'. 1972‘H. Carmichael’ Naked to Grave v. 60 He's going to have a tough job convincing the police he wasn't the one wot done it.
b. In phr. wot, no ―?: orig. (in the war of 1939–45) a catchphrase protesting against shortages, written as the caption accompanying a Chad (see Chad); now also in extended humorous use.
1945Sunday Express 2 Dec. 2/3 Chad is the Watcher... He peers over walls and asks, ‘Wot, no{ddd}?’ 1946,1950[see Chad, chad]. 1958J. Townsend Young Devils ii. 16 A rusty drawing-pin supported an old Teachers' Union notice. It had scribbled across it ‘Wot, no money?’ 1979K. Conlon Move in Game i. v. 64 Joanna sent a postcard which said, ‘Wot no tulle and confetti?’
▪ III. wot(e
obs. forms of oat. |