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nott¹

  • /nɒt/ UK

Rhymes with -ɒt

Where it comes from

From Old English hnot, of unknown origin.

adjective more nott · most nott · not

  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.

verb notts · notting · notted · not

  1. obsolete To shear. he caused his owne head to bee poiled, and from thencefoorthe his bearde to bee notted, and no more shaven.

Nott²

proper noun

  1. A surname.

Nott³

Where it comes from

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

proper noun

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

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@misc{nott_2026,
  title = {nott},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nott},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}