owt
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9.9
Anything at all that people say in parts of northern Britain
- pronoun
- /aʊt/
- UK
:
cualquier cosa
- Let me know if you need owt from the market before I leave.
Examples
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I don't want owt to do with that!
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If there's owt you don't understand, just ask me.
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He said he didn't want owt for his birthday this year.
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Have you seen owt interesting today?
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Let me know if you need owt from the market before I leave.
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He said he didn't want owt for his birthday this year.
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If there's owt you don't understand, just ask me.
Surface Forms
owt subject case
Etymology
Owt is a northern English dialect form of the older word aught, which meant 'anything'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of it as the opposite of dialect nowt ('nothing'), so owt means 'anything'.