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nowt1 n Northern English a dialect word for nothing [from naught] nowt2 n
Scot and northern English a dialect word for bullock and cattle [from Old Norse naut; see neat2] Translations nowt [ˈnaʊt] (British) pron (= nothing) → ne ... rien nowt n, pron, adv (Brit, dial) → nix (inf), → nischt (dial, inf) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It be all fool-talk, lock, stock, and barrel, that's what it be and nowt else. But that's his way, Miss Grey: when he comes into a poor body's house a-seein' sick folk, he like notices what they most stand i' need on; an' if he thinks they can't readily get it therseln, he never says nowt about it, but just gets it for 'em. And when it come to character, warn't it Compeyson as had been to the school, and warn't it his schoolfellows as was in this position and in that, and warn't it him as had been know'd by witnesses in such clubs and societies, and nowt to his disadvantage? |
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