What vs Wot - What's the difference?
what | wot |
(interrogative) Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: used interrogatively in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.
(relative, nonstandard) That; which.
* 1902 , , (The Admirable Crichton) :
(relative) That which; those that; the thing that.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= In some manner or degree; in part; partly; usually followed by with .
Such.
(label) Why?
* (rfdate) (Chaucer)
* (rfdate) (John Milton)
Used to introduce each of two coordinate phrases or concepts; both…and.
* :
* 1605 Wm. Shakespeare, King Lear
(British, colloquial, dated) Is that not true?
Which; which kind of.
How much; how great (used in an exclamation).
(obsolete) something; thing; stuff
* Spenser
(archaic) To know.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John XII:
* 1855 , John Godfrey Saxe, Poems , Ticknor & Fields 1855, p. 121:
* 1866 , Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Garden of Proserpine" in Poems and Ballads , 1st Series, London: J. C. Hotten, 1866:
* 1889 , William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains , Inkling Books 2003, p. 241:
(wit)
what (humorous misspelling intended to mimic certain working class accents )
* 1859', Then, '''wot with undertakers, and wot with parish clerks, and wot with sextons, and wot with private watchmen (all awaricious and all in it), a man wouldn't get much by it, even if it was so. — Charles Dickens, ''A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin 2003, p. 319)
As interjections the difference between what and wot
is that what is An expression of surprise or disbelief.wot is what (humorous misspelling intended to mimic certain working class accents.As a pronoun what
is which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: used interrogatively in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.As an adverb what
is in some manner or degree; in part; partly; usually followed by with.As a determiner what
is which; which kind of.As a noun what
is something; thing; stuff.As a verb wot is
to know.what
English
(wikipedia what)Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- That’s her; that’s the thing what has stole his heart from me.
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast […, or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",
Adverb
(-)- What should I tell the answer of the knight?
- But what do I stand reckoning upon advantages and gains lost by the misrule and turbulency of the prelates?
- And as for on C good knyghtes I haue my self / but I fawte / l / for so many haue ben slayne in my dayes / and so Ladegreans delyuerd his doughter Gweneuer vnto Merlyn / and the table round with the C knyghtes / and so they rode fresshly with grete royalte / what' by water and ' what by land / tyl that they came nyghe vnto london
Synonyms
* suchInterjection
(en interjection)- What , have his daughters brought him to this pass?
- What ! That’s amazing.
- It’s a nice day, what'''?'' (sometimes repeated, e.g.: '''''What'''-'''what ? )
Determiner
(en determiner)- What shirt are you going to wear?
- What time is it?
- What kind of car is that?
- What talent he has!
- What a talent!
Derived terms
* wat * what ho * whatness * what's whatNoun
(-)- They prayd him sit, and gave him for to feed / Such homely what as serves the simple clowne, / That doth despise the dainties of the towne
Statistics
*wot
English
Etymology 1
An extension of the present-tense form of (m) (verb) to apply to all forms.Verb
(en-verb)- He that walketh in the darke, wotteth not whither he goeth.
- She little wots , poor Lady Anne! Her wedded lord is dead.
- They wot not who make thither [...].
- Then he cast his eyes on the road that entered the Market-stead from the north, and he saw thereon many men gathered; and he wotted not what they were [...].
Etymology 2
From (m), in return from (etyl) (m).Verb
(head)Etymology 3
Representing pronunciation.Interjection
(en interjection)- Wot , no bananas? (popular slogan during wartime rationing)