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aught

pron
/ɔːt/UK/ɔt/US/ɑt/

Etymology

From Middle English aught (“estimation, regard, reputation”), from Old English æht (“estimation, consideration”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahtu. Cognate with Dutch acht (“attention, regard, heed”), German Acht (“attention, regard”). Also see ettle.

  1. inherited from *ahtu✻
  2. inherited from æht
  3. inherited from aught

Definitions

  1. Anything whatsoever, any part.

    • for aught I know/care
    • […] wouldst thou aught with me?
    • But go, my Son, and ſee if aught be vvanting / Among thy Father's Friends; […]

  2. At all, in any degree, in any respect.

    • […] and if your love Can labour aught in sad invention, Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb, And sing it to her bones [...]

  3. Whit, the smallest part, iota.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. Zero.

    2. The digit zero.

    3. Estimation.

      • in my aught

    4. Of importance or consequence (in the phrase "of aught").

      • an event of aught

    5. Esteem, respect.

      • a man of aught
      • Show some aught to your elders, boy.

    6. Obsolete or dialectal form of ought

    7. Obsolete or dialectal form of eight.

      • Seven — aught — aught tines on the antlers. By G—d, a hart of aught tines, and the first of the season!

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA