Naught

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NAUGHT, see Nought

NOUGHT, sb., adj., adv. and v. Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. and Eng. Also written naught w.Yks.1 Chs.2 Chs.3 Shr.1 Cor.; nort War. Suf. w.Som.1 Dev.2 Cor.2; nowght Yks. Lei.1; and in forms naet Dmf.; naght Hmp.1; naowt Chs.1; nate Ken.1; neat Dor.1; neawt Lan.; noat n.Yks.; nocht Sc. (Jam.) Bnff.1 Lan.; noght Sc.; noht n.Lin.1; noot s.Not.; no't sw.Lin.1; note Not.1 Lin.1; noth Abd. (Jam.); noucht Sc. (Jam.) Wxf.1; nout N.I.1 Cum. n.Yks. w.Yks.1 n.Lan.1 e.Lan.1 s.Chs. Not.1 Not.2 Lei.1 Nhp.1 War.2 War.3 Hnt. Suf.; noutt Yks.; nowt Rxb. n.Cy. Nhb.1 Dur.1 Lakel.2 Cum.4 Wm. n.Yks.2 n.Yks.3 n.Yks.4 e.Yks.1 m.Yks.1 w.Yks.2 w.Yks.3 w.Yks.5 Lan.1 e.Lan.1 m.Lan.1 Chs.1 s.Chs.1 s.Stf. Der.2 nw.Der.1 Not. Lin.1 sw.Lin.1 Rut.1 Nhp.1 Shr.1 Glo. Brks.1 Nrf. Sur. Sus. s.Hmp.; nowte Cum.3; nurt w.Som. [nǭt, nāt, nout, Sc. noχt.] 1. sb. Nothing. Sc. Grose (1790) MS. add. (C.) Cai.1 Elg. 'Tis nocht but richt, in summer nicht, A lassie watch her somebody, Tester Poems (1865) 220. Bnff.1, Abd. (Jam.) Kcd. Nocht save fearsome tales o' ‘Bonny’ Ran the country roon, Grant Lays (1884) 33. Per. Haliburton Dunbar (1895) 17. Frf. We hae noucht to gie, Johnston Poems (1869) 100. s.Sc. Watson Bards (1859) 105. Rnf. Webster Rhymes (1835) 214. Ayr. Nocht but dule and dolour pruve, Service Notandums (1890) 91. Lnk. Ye've nocht in yer pouches but dirty green rags, Hamilton Poems (1865) 46. Lth. Lumsden Sheep-head (1892) 85. Edb. McDowall Poems (1839) 40. Bwk. Chisholm Poems (1879) 58. Slk. Saw you nocht? Chr. North Noctes (ed. 1856) IV. 89. Rxb. I'm seeking nowt but what I've rowt for, Ford Thistledown (1891) 186. Dmf. Thou hast nae't frae thy mammie, Cromek Remains (1810) 30. Gall. Irving Lays (1872) 63. Wgt. Fraser Wigtown (1877) 209. N.I.1 I got it for nout. n.Cy. Grose (1790). Nhb. I want for nowt that she can gie me, Wilson Pitman's Pay (1843) 13; Nhb.1, Dur.1, e.Dur.1 Lakel.2 Ah'll hev nowt ta deea wi' 't. Cum. We had nout better to drink, Ritson Borrowdale Lett. (1866) 4; There's nowt sae queer as folk, Old saying (J.Ar.); Cum.4 Wm. That 'ats nowt's nivver e mich danger, Old saying (B.K.). n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2; n.Yks.3 Had ribbins for varra near nowt, 3; n.Yks.4 ne.Yks.1 Ah knaw nowt aboot it. e.Yks.1 What Ah diz is nowt tĭ neeabody bud mysen. m.Yks.1 w.Yks.1 ii. 285; w.Yks.2 w.Yks.3 w.Yks.4; w.Yks.5 Tha'll take nowt an' gi'e nowt. Lan. Ey knoas neawt abowt him. Ainsworth Lan. Witches (ed. 1849) i; Ah ne'er see nocht like it! (F.P.T.); Lan.1, n.Lan.1, e.Lan.1, m.Lan.1, Chs.1 s.Chs. I've got nout for thee (E.F.); s.Chs.1 Midl. I think nowt on it, Bartram People of Clopton (1897) 140. s.Stf. I had nowt to do wi' that job, Pinnock Blk. Cy. Ann. (1895). Der.1; Der.2 Now't but a tinker'd consarn (s.v. Tinkered). nw.Der.1 Not. He waent do it for note (J.H.B.); There's noat like laziness for comfort, Prior Renie (1895) 248; Not.1 Lin. Thoort nowt o' a noorse, Tennyson N. Farmer, Old Style (1864) st. 1; Lin.1 n.Lin.1 She was sittin' by th' fire doin' noht. sw.Lin.1 I can't do no't, to mean o't. Rut.1 It's nowt o' the kind! Lei.1 Nhp.1 It all means nout. War. (J.R.W.), War.2 War.3, Shr.1 Glo. I can ride whoam free and fur nowt, Buckman Darke's Sojourn (1890) vii. Brks.1 All as I do's this year zims to come to nowt. Hnt. (T.P.F.) e.Suf. I don't know nort about it (F.H.). Sur. He could'na leave me nowt i' his will, Bickley Sur. Hills (1890) III. xvi. Sus. It was nowt but a field, Jennings Field Paths (1884) 37. Hmp.1 s.Hmp. I thowt as it weren't for nowt as I heerd the old ash-tree a-groaning, Verney L. Lisle (1870) III. 37. Dor.1 To plây var nēat. w.Som.1, Dev.2 n.Dev. That's nort to nobody, Exm. Crtshp. (1746) l. 621. Cor. I b'lieve I be nort but a dead man, T. Towser (1873) 10; Cor.2 What's good for nort comes to no hort. Hence (1) Noughtless, adj. good-for-nothing, valueless; (2) Noughtlike, adj. of inferior quality, unsatisfactory; (3) Noughtness, sb. nothingness, wickedness; (4) Nowter, sb. ‘a fool's errand.’ (1) n.Yks.2, Suf. (C.D.) (2) n.Yks.2 A nought-like fellow. e.Yks.1 Jack's nowt like at plewin [ploughing] wheear Bill cums, MS. add. (T.H.) Lan.1 (s.v. Owt-like). (3) n.Yks.2 (4) nw.Lin. ‘I thowt it wod all turn out a nowter.’ Said... in reference to boring in search of water in obedience to the direction of a person who professed to find water by aid of a divining-rod (E.P.). 2. Comb. (1) Nought-at-dow, (a) worthless; of no account; (b) a worthless, thriftless, or unsuccessful fellow; (c) nothing good; wickedness; (2) Nought-penny, bringing or earning no pay; (3) Nought-penny job, work done without pay; (4) Nought-penny love, disinterested affection; (5) Nought-vent, a speech which is little to the point. (1, a) n.Cy. (Hall.) Lakel.2 He's nowt-at-dow. Cum. What is she? ─ nought’ at dow, Anderson Ballads (1805) 2; Cum.4 (b) Nhb.1, Wm. (W.H.H.) n.Yks. Tak no noatish ov a fella like that, he's a regler nout-ot-dow (W.H.); n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 n.Lan. He's a sad shaffelin ev a fella is Jack Todd, a girt nowt-et-dow (W.H.H.). (c) Wm. An nowt et dow wed cum omma, Clarke Jonny Shippard's Jurna (1865). n.Yks.2 He's efther nowt o' t'dow. (2) n.Yks.1, m.Yks.1 (3, 4) n.Yks.2 (5) n.Yks.2 It was all a nought-vent. 3. Phr. (1) all a piece of nought, all nonsense, humbug; (2) all to nought, (a) completely, entirely; (b) exactly; (3) as (if) nought were, as if nothing had happened, as if there was nothing to do; (4) as near as nought, nearly, almost; (5) a thing of nought, a valueless trifle; (6) at nought, on no consideration whatever; (7) nought or nothing to mean aught or nought, nothing of any importance; (8) nought a deal, not much; (9) nought almost, almost nothing; (10) at (the) mack, (11) nought at sort, nothing of the sort; (12) nought boiling over, of an indifferent quality or character; (13) nought but well, nothing but what is good; (14) nought good to, good for nothing; (15) nought in a manner, see (8); (16) nought in sport, only in jest; (17) nought marchantable, not well; not up to the mark; (18) nought nobbut, nothing but, nothing except; (19) nought no less nor, nothing less than; (20) nought o'clock, of no account; (21) nought of a fellow, a fellow not good for much; (22) nought of all noughts, anything thoroughly bad; esp. a depraved and worthless person; (23) nought of (the) sort, nothing of the sort; (24) nought that dows (for ought, of no profit or advantage; (25) nought that's ought, of no good whatever; (26) nought to crack on, nothing to boast of; (27) nought to mean ought, nothing to speak of; (28) nought to nail to, of health: nothing to build upon; (29) nought to nobody, of no consequence to anybody but the speaker; (30) nought to one, not related to one; (31) nought to speak on, see (27); (32) that that's nought, the devil; (33) to be a person to nought, to resemble him closely; (34) to be nought with, to be guilty of an act of impurity with; (35) to call (all) to nought, to abuse violently; (36) to make nought on, to make no account of; (37) up to nought, valueless. (1) w.Yks. An' when ah gat tə t'spot, it wor all a piece o' nowt (J.R.). (2, a) w.Yks.1 He beat him au to naught. (b) w.Yks.1 It fits au to nout. (3) w.Yks. I was walkin quietly, with a cabbage under my arm, as nowt wor, Saunterer's Satchel (1877) 21; What should they see but th' same noisy beggar peearked o' th' wall, just as if nowt wor, Hartley Clock Alm. (Dec. 1871), in Leeds Merc. Suppl. (Sept. 14, 1895). Lan. Th' lass... pood eawt a pair o' tungs, pickt up th' bowt wi' um, placed it on th' anvil, an' then walkt off to her play amung th' durt as if nowt wur, Wood Hum. Sketches 82. (4) w.Yks. (J.W.) sw.Lin.1 As near as nowt done. (5) n.Yks. (I.W.) (6) n.Yks. He didn't like it at nowt (I.W.). w.Yks.1 He could not be counselled at naught; w.Yks.5 Can't come it at nowt [Can't accomplish it by any means]. (7) w.Yks. (J.W.), Not. (L.C.M.) (8) n.Lin.1 ‘What have you been doing to-day?’ ‘Why noht a deäl, it's rain'd oher hard.’ (9) n.Yks. (I.W.), w.Yks. (J.W.) (10) Lakel.2 ‘Dud thoo tell me that ye wanted a whelp oot o' oor bitch?’ ‘Nowt-at-t'-mack, we've mair dogs ner we know what ta deea wi'.’ Wm. ‘Nowt et t'mak,’ ses Lib, Robison Aald Taales (1882) 6. w.Yks. (J.W.) (11) w.Yks. Ah think tha'll do nowt at sooart, Hartley Clock Alm. (1896). (12) Wm. He's nowt-boilin-ower is t'auld beggar nut, er else he wad'nt treat his wife e that way (B.K.). (13) n.Yks.1 Ah nivver heared nowght but weel ov 'im; n.Yks.4 Ah can saay nowt bud weel on him. (14) n.Cy. Grose (1790). (15) Cum.1 Cum.4 (16) w.Yks. A'a John, yer nowt i spooart, aw'll pay yo in a while, Bickerdike Beacon Alm. (1875). (17) w.Som.1, Dev. (Hall.) n.Dev. ‘How dost try I?'... ‘Why fath... nort marchantable,’ Exm. Crtshp. (1746) l. 327-9. (18) w.Yks. (J.W.) Lan. There's bin nowt nobbut wars sin' these Georges started gafferin, Clegg David's Loom (1894) ii. (19) w.Yks. w.Yks. Alm. (1881) 25. (20) w.Yks. He's nowt o'clock, Banks Wkfld. Wds. (1865); Their present St. George was nowt o'clock wi' t'sword, Burnley Sketches (1875) 127. (21) n.Yks. (I.W.) (22) w.Yks.1 Lin. I beänt sich a Nowt of all Nowts as 'ull hallus do as 'e's bid, Tennyson Owd Roä (1889). n.Lin.1 Him a preächer! a real noht o' all nohts like him! (23) Cum.1, w.Yks. (J.W.), Not.1 Lin.1 Yah may tell me so, but I knows it's nowt o' sort. n.Lin.1 I niver said noht o' th' soort e' all my life. (24) e.Yks.1 (25) Yks. Grose (1790) MS. add. (P.) w.Yks. (J.W.); w.Yks.1 Nout at's out can come o sike like wark; w.Yks.5 Th'art nowt 'at's owt. nw.Der.1 n.Lin.1 Fling it upo' th' fire, it's noht 'at's oht. (26) Cum. There's nowte here to crack on, N. Lonsdale Mag. (Nov. 1866) 188; Cum.4, w.Yks. (J.W.) Der.2 He's nowt to crack on. Not.2 It is a wicked deed and nout to crack on. (27) w.Yks. Leave me onny brass? Now! nowt to meean owt (Æ.B.). (28) n.Lin.1 Noä, I doänt get noä better. You see, I've noht to naail to. The doctor said, if he'd hed a good constitution he could hev reighted him up, bud you seä he'd drunk soä hard, ther' was noht to naail to. (29) w.Yks. It's nowght to nob'dy what I du, an' Ahs't just suit misen abaht it, Leeds Merc. Suppl. (Sept. 14, 1895). (30) w.Yks. (J.W.), w.Yks.1 Lan. Yo're nowt to me ─ we're noane akin, Clegg Sketches (1895) 204. Nhp.1 He's nowt to me. (31) w.Yks. ‘Is ther ony meyl i' t'bin lass?’ ‘Now [no], nowt ta speyk on’ (S.K.C.). (32) w.Yks.1 (33) Chs.1 He's his fayther to nowt. (34) w.Yks.1 (35) w.Yks.1, Chs.3 (36) Nrf. If so bein' a man had gan all his houseful for love, 'twud be right made nowt on, Gillett Sng. Sol. (1860) viii. 7. (37) n.Yks.4 It's up ti nowt neea waay. 4. Anything quite worthless. w.Yks. (J.W.) n.Lin.1 It's a noht, chuck it up o' th' fire. 5. A person of no importance; a worthless person; ne'er-do-weel. Cum. Thoo brazzen-feäced nowt, Caine Hagar (1887) viii. Wm. A girt nowt ev a fella (W.H.H.). n.Yks.1; n.Yks.4 He's a nowt. w.Yks. Great hectoring nowts like yond' Irish Peter, Brontë Shirley (1849) v; (J.W.) Lan. Dick, th's nobbut bin a nowt ov a lad, Ferguson Moudywarp, II. se.Lan. The whole gamut of Lancashire epithets was wasted on him. ‘A ornery beggar,’ a ‘nowt,’ Cornh. Mag. (Nov. 1898) 697. Chs.1 s.Chs.1 A naughty child is often addressed as ‘Yŏ little nowt.’ s.Not. (J.P.K.), n.Lin.1 6. pl. A game of marbles at the conclusion of which each player retains his own stakes. e.Yks.1 (s.v. Keepins). 7. A cry which forbids a player at marbles to place his ‘taw’ near the ring. Lan. Manchester City News (Oct. 10, 1896). 8. adj. Worthless, good-for-nothing, bad, vicious; cross, nasty. Rxb. N. & Q. (1865) 3rd S. viii. 537. n.Cy. A man may spare, And still be bare, If his wife be nowt, N. & Q. ix. 117. Wm. Hee's fearful nowt, Wheeler Dial. (1790) 14, ed. 1821. n.Yks. Ah'll tell tha what, he's nowt, Leeds Merc. Suppl. (Dec. 20, 1890). m.Yks.1 w.Yks. (B.K.); w.Yks.2; w.Yks.3 Introd. 18. Lan. She's th' nowtest owd piece i' Christendom, Burnett Haworth's (1887) xxx; Lan.1, e.Lan.1 Chs.1 He's a nowt lad; Chs.2 Chs.3, s.Chs. (E.F.), s.Chs.1 Der.1; Der.2 He's nowt. nw.Der.1, n.Lin.1, Shr.1, Ken.1 9. No; none. Wxf.1 Cor. You've naught occasion to say I be stealing, Baring-Gould Curgenven (1893) xiv. 10. adv. Obs. In no wise. Sc. Wi' good white bread, and farrow-cow milk, I wat she fed me nought, Jamieson Pop. Ballads (1806) I. 166. 11. v. To abuse violently. Chs.2

NOUGHT, see Nowt, sb.1

NOUGHT, sb. Yks. Lan. In phr. (1) nought at dow, worthless; (2) nought but, nothing to hinder that; (3) nought good to, good for nothing; (4) nought that's ought, of no good whatever; (5) to nought, completely, exactly. (1) n.Yks. (I.W.) (2) Ah know nowt bud Ah could come, I.W. (3) n.Yks. (I.W.), s.Lan.1 (4) s.Lan.1 (5) w.Yks. A bonny little lad ... 'at had his father's nooas an' chin to nowt, Hartley Ditt. 2nd S. (c. 1873) 126.