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How to use wot in a sentence

20 example sentences · verb

Wot means to know (a fact). Example: “A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!”

Examples of wot by meaning

verbTo know (a fact).

  • They sped under the moonlight as silent as a shadow, visible only to cats and to people who dabbled in things men were not meant to wot of.1988, Terry Pratchett, Mort, Corgi, published 1988, page 91

More sentences with wot

  • A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!From the entry lovesome
  • I've walked me teef orf afore rouf this mornin', and wot 'ave I got?1978, Rose Ayers, The Street Sparrows. From the entry tol
  • So when the war broke out, sez 'e: "Well, wot abaht it, Joe?"1958, Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man. From the entry abaht
  • "It's only youse crowd wot comes makin' a pigsty of the place," said Melons conclusively.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 20. From the entry pigsty
  • "It ain't the second nor third floors wot comes makin' all manner o' mess in these basins."1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 20. From the entry conclusively
  • Lines, tagers, monks, baboonesses; everyting wot dey is in de anymule line is dere.1912 April 5, “Mike Huff’s Weather”, in The Leavenworth Post, volume VII, number 198, Leavenworth, Kan., page 1, column 4. From the entry babooness
  • "You're a marvel, that's wot you are," ses the 'tec, shaking his 'ead.1909, W.W. Jacobs, Self-Help. From the entry 'tec
  • An’ I dunno wot started me, fur I ’adn’t noticed it at the time.1905 June, M. F. Quinlan, “‘And Who is My Neighbor?’”, in The Catholic World. […], volume LXXXI, number 483, New York, N.Y.: […], →ISSN…. From the entry posty
  • “So, wot, people'd pay to throw you dahn the stairs?2007, Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Faceless Fiend: The Faceless Fiend: Being the Tale of a Criminal Mastermind, His Masked Minions…. From the entry dahn
  • '"Gal Audrey, yer wot l call a pingler.1986, Audrey Whiting, Gal Audrey, page 162. From the entry pingler
  • G, but we wot not of the familiarity that never savored of boreism which was ours for the whole two weeks.1920, anonymous author, The Seventh Regiment Gazette, volume 35. From the entry boreism
  • "Not exactly wot you could call nasty," ses Mr.1909, W.W. Jacobs, Peter's Pence. From the entry dessay
  • “‘Wot was that knock?’ I sez to meself.1905 June, M. F. Quinlan, “‘And Who is My Neighbor?’”, in The Catholic World. […], volume LXXXI, number 483, New York, N.Y.: […], →ISSN…. From the entry posty
  • Wot I take to is smooth-faced young chaps."1902 October, Jack London, chapter XX, in A Daughter of the Snows, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, page…. From the entry whiskery
  • From the cabin came that horrible song: "Here's to the feet wot have walked the plank. ⁠Yo ho! for the dead man's throttle."1915, Russell Thorndike, chapter XXXVII, in Doctor Syn. From the entry throttle
  • I WUZ out ter de Parker Karnival Kumpany’s layout terday, and say, bo, you orter see all de anymules wot dey got.1912 April 5, “Mike Huff’s Weather”, in The Leavenworth Post, volume VII, number 198, Leavenworth, Kan., page 1, column 4. From the entry babooness
  • That's wot I want you for.1904, May Sinclair, The Divine Fire, H. Holt, page 340. From the entry tone
  • "Go and find out who did it, before you come blaming me for it." "It's only youse crowd wot comes makin' a pigsty of the place," said Melons conclusively.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 20. From the entry yous
  • Only yestereve, you wot, one of Lord de Grey's men-at-arms came limping to us with the news of the awful carnage the foul fiend had wrought on his master's household.1927, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Outlaw of Torn, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008. From the entry yestereve

Meaning of wot

  1. verb To know (a fact).

Full definition of wot

Questions about wot in a sentence

How do you use wot in a sentence?
Wot is used as a verb. For example: “A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!”
What is a short sentence with wot?
“That's wot I want you for.”
What does wot mean?
Wot means to know (a fact).

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