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nott

UK/nɒt/

nott adjective: bald.

Adjective

nott (comparative more nott, superlative most nott)

  1. (obsolete) Bald.
  2. (Newfoundland, UK, dialectal) Of an animal: having no horns; polled.
    • For these and other reasons farmers who occupy good land in the vale with their hill farms are getting tired of the horned sheep, and use their hill farms only as summering-ground for nott sheep and bullocks.1850, “On the Farming of Somerset”, in Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, volume XI, page 679
    • Do ye know that riddle about the nott cows, Jonathan? Why do nott cows give less milk in a year than horned?1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Verb

nott (third-person singular simple present notts, present participle notting, simple past and past participle notted)

  1. (obsolete) To shear.
    • he caused his owne head to bee poiled, and from thencefoorthe his bearde to bee notted, and no more shaven.1575, John Stow, Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Nott

Nott

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Nott

Nott

  1. University of Nottingham, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate

nott meaning in Bengali

nott in Bengali

ন্যাড়া, ছাঁটা, কাটা

Forms of nott

Adjective
comparativemore nott
superlativemost nott
alternative formnot
Verb
third-person singular presentnotts
present participlenotting
past participlenotted
pastnotted

Origin of nott

From Old English hnot, of unknown origin.

Shortened form of Nottingham created by taking all the letters of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable.

Words that rhyme with nott

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Questions about nott

What does nott mean?
Nott means bald.
What is nott in Bengali?
Nott in Bengali is ন্যাড়া, ছাঁটা, কাটা. See Nott meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is nott?
Nott can be an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce nott?
Nott is pronounced /nɒt/ (UK).

Words near nott in the dictionary

  1. notsee
  2. notsees
  3. notspot
  4. notspots
  5. Notswolds
  6. nott
  7. Nottage
  8. Nottages
  9. Nottaway
  10. Nottaways
  11. notted

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nott (page history and authors); Nott (page history and authors); nott (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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