Wonts vs Wots - What's the difference?
wonts | wots |
(wont)
One’s habitual way of doing things, practice, custom.
* Milton
* 2006 , Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red:
* 1920 , James Brown Scott, The United States of America: A Study in International Organization , page 142:
* 1914 , Items of interest - Page 83:
(archaic) Accustomed or used (to'' or ''with a thing).
* Shakespeare
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XI, ''The Abbot’s Ways
(designating habitual behaviour) Accustomed, apt (to doing something).
(archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
(archaic) To be accustomed.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
(wot)
(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 verbs the difference between wonts and wots
is that wonts is third-person singular of wont while wots is third-person singular of wot.wonts
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*wont
English
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain: apparently a conflation of (wone) and wont (participle adjective, below).Noun
(en-noun)- He awoke at the crack of dawn, as was his wont .
- They are to be called out to their military motions, under sky or covert, according to the season, as was the Roman wont .
- With a simple-minded desire, and to rid my mind of this irrepressible urge, I retired to a corner of the room, as was my wont [...]
- As was also the wont of international conferences, a delegate from Pennsylvania, in this instance James Wilson, proposed the appointment of a secretary and nominated William Temple Franklin
- Such conditions, having been the common practice for years, and, existing in a less degree in some localities to the present time, afford a tangible reason for a form of correlation that is more universal than it is the wont of the profession to admit [...]
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Adjective
(-)- I have not that alacrity of spirit, / Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.
- He could read English Manuscripts very elegantly, elegantissime : he was wont to preach to the people in the English tongue, though according to the dialect of Norfolk, where he had been brought up
- He is wont to complain loudly about his job.
- Like a 60-yard Percy Harvin touchdown run or a Joe Haden interception return, Urban Meyer’s jaw-dropping resignation Saturday was, as he’s wont to say, “a game-changer.” — Sunday December 27, 2009, Stewart Mandel, INSIDE COLLEGE FOOTBALL'', ''Meyer’s shocking resignation rocks college coaching landscape
See also
* * prone toVerb
(en verb)- But by record of antique times I finde / That wemen wont in warres to beare most sway [...].
Anagrams
* *wots
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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)
