nowt

¹

[ nout ]

noun

, Scot. and North England.

, plural nowt.

1. an ox.
2. a herd of cattle.

nowt

²

[ noht ]

noun

, British Dialect.

1. naught; nothing.

nowt

¹

/ naʊt /

noun

1. a dialect word for bullock cattle

nowt

²

/ naʊt /

noun

1. a dialect word for nothing

Word History and Origins

Origin of nowt¹

1150–1200; Middle English < Scandinavian; compare Old Norse naut, neat ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of nowt¹

C13: from Old Norse naut; see neat ²

Origin of nowt²

from naught

Example Sentences

“People travel around the world and this is it. With no tourists there’d be no jobs, no wages, no nowt. They rely on it, don’t they?”

From BBC

Dennis Norwell "The police used to run round this village with shields, banging on them: boom, boom, boom. Frightening kids. It wasn't right. They used to shove their pay packets in your faces, that was the worst thing, saying 'Look what we've got here and you're on strike'. And we had nowt."

From BBC

Mr Daymond said he ran in and picked her up but her head was "flimsy" and "floppy" like "there was nowt there".

From BBC

But for U.S. fans of “Happy Valley,” which returns May 22 on AMC+, BBC America and Acorn TV, it is, as they would say in the north of England, nowt.

From Los Angeles Times

And when it come to character, warn’t it Compeyson as had been to the school, and warn’t it his schoolfellows as was in this position and in that, and warn’t it him as had been know’d by witnesses in such clubs and societies, and nowt to his disadvantage?

From Literature