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wort | wot |

As a noun wort

is word as an isolated unit.

As a preposition wot is

from.

wort

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A plant; herb; vegetable.
  • *:
    • he drinks water, and lives on wort leaves, pulse, like a hogg, or scraps like a dog […].
  • * 1845 , Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Works :
    • It is an excellent pleasure to be able to take pleasure in worts and water, in bread and onions, for then a man can never want pleasure when it is so ready for him, that nature hath spread it over all its provisions.
  • Any of various plants or herbs.
    • Derived terms
    * (vern, adder's wort) * adderwort * (American lungwort) * (asterwort) * awlwort * banewort * barrenwort * (bearwort) * bellwort * birthwort * bishop's wort * bitterwort * bladderwort * blawort * bloodwort * blue navelwort * blue throatwort * blushwort * bogwort * boragewort * bridewort * brimstonewort * brotherwort * brownwort * bruisewort * bugwort * bullock's lungwort * bullwort * burstwort * butterwort * cancerwort * catwort * clown's ringwort * colewort * common ragwort * coralwort * cow's lungwort * crosswort * damewort * danewort * dragonwort * dropwort * (dungwort) * ebony spleenwort * elderwort * (European pillwort) * (fanwort) * felonwort * (feltwort) * felwort * feverwort * figwort * fleawort * (flukewort) * (French lungwort) * frostwort * fumewort * (galewort) * (garlicwort) * (gentianwort) * (German madwort) * (gipsywort) * glasswort * (golden lungwort) * (golden ragwort) * goutwort * (greater spearwort) * gutwort * gypsywort * hammerwort * hartwort * heathwort * hemlock dropwort * hillwort * hogwort * holewort * honewort * honeywort * hoodwort * hornwort * ironwort * kelpwort * kidneywort * knotwort * laserwort * lazarwort * leadwort * lesser spearwort * lichwort * lilywort * liverwort * lousewort * lungwort * lustwort * madderwort * madwort * maidenhair spleenwort * mallowwort * marsh pennywort * marshwort * masterwort * maudlinwort * maywort * meadowwort * milkwort * miterwort * mitrewort * modiwort * moneywort * moonwort * moorwort * motherwort * moudiewort * moudiwort * mountain spiderwort * (mowdiewort) * mudwort * mugwort * (mulewort) * (nailwort) * navelwort * (nettlewort) * nipplewort * (peachwort) * pearlwort * pennywort * pepperwort * (peterwort) * pilewort * pillwort * pipewort * quillwort * quinsywort * rattlewort * ribwort * rosewort * rupturewort * saltwort * sandwort * sawwort * scorpionwort * scurvywort * sea lungwort * sea milkwort * sea ragwort * sea sandwort * sea starwort * setterwort * sicklewort * sleepwort * slipperwort * sneezewort * soapwort * sparrowwort * spearwort * spiderwort * spleenwort * spoonwort * springwort * spurwort * * * * * stabwort * staggerwort * staithwort * standerwort * starwort * staverwort * stinkwort * stitchwort * stonewort * strapwort * sulphurwort * swallowwort * sweetwort * talewort * tetterwort * thoroughwort * throatwort * thrumwort * toothwort * (towerwort) * (tree lungwort) * (trophywort) * (wall pennywort) * wallwort * wartwort * water dropwort * water figwort * water pennywort * (water starwort) * waterwort * (white navelwort) * (white swallowwort) * (willowwort) * woundwort * (yellow starwort) * yellowwort

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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .

    Noun

    (-)
  • Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer

    • See also

    * (wikipedia)

    Anagrams

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    wot

    English

    Etymology 1

    An extension of the present-tense form of (m) (verb) to apply to all forms.

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (archaic) To know.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John XII:
    • He that walketh in the darke, wotteth not whither he goeth.
  • * 1855 , John Godfrey Saxe, Poems , Ticknor & Fields 1855, p. 121:
    • She little wots , poor Lady Anne! Her wedded lord is dead.
  • * 1866 , Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Garden of Proserpine" in Poems and Ballads , 1st Series, London: J. C. Hotten, 1866:
    • They wot not who make thither [...].
  • * 1889 , William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains , Inkling Books 2003, p. 241:
    • 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)
  • (wit)

    • Etymology 3

    Representing pronunciation.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • 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)
    • Wot , no bananas? (popular slogan during wartime rationing)

    Anagrams

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