nowt
1
9.9
Not anything at all
- noun
- /naʊt/
- UK
:
nada
- I found nowt in my search for the missing keys.
Examples
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He has done nowt to help with the project.
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It will be fit for nowt but dogs.
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Nowt's frigging changed, at all.
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She knows nowt about the situation, so don't ask her.
Synonyms
nothing
vsnowt
∞
1.0
Not anything of interest or value
is informal regional speech rather than neutral standard usage
30
8.3
The state of having no value, result, or importance
is informal modern British speech rather than formal or archaic tone
19
9.9
Not anything or zero
is regional dialect speech rather than a spelling variant
7
8.5
Nothing at all
is informal regional speech that is more neutral than slang emphasis
7
9.9
A very small amount, almost nothing
is informal regional speech that denotes total absence rather than small amount
9.9
A short word people say to show they got nothing
is general informal British speech for absence rather than result focus
9.9
No one or nothing in Scots dialect
is British informal dialect for general absence rather than Scots usage
Antonyms
Idioms
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word nowt is a Northern English informal word meaning 'nothing'. It comes from older English words that meant 'not a thing' and is the same idea as naught or nothing, so when you say you have nowt you mean you have 'not anything'.