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aught

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English aught, ought, from Old English āht, āwiht, from ā (“always", "ever”) + wiht (“thing", "creature”). More at wight.

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Pronoun

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aught

  1. (archaic or dialectal) Anything whatsoever, any part.

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aught (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) At all, in any degree, in any respect.
    • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
      […] and if your love
      Can labour aught in sad invention,
      Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb,
      And sing it to her bones [...]

Noun

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aught (plural aughts)

  1. (archaic) Whit, the smallest part, iota.

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Etymology 2

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Rebracketing of a naught.

Noun

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aught (plural aughts)

  1. (sometimes proscribed) Zero.
  2. The digit zero.
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Etymology 3

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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.

Noun

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aught (uncountable)

  1. (regional) Estimation.
    in my aught
  2. (regional) Of importance or consequence (in the phrase "of aught").
    an event of aught
  3. (regional, rare, obsolete) Esteem, respect.
    a man of aught ― a man of high esteem, an important or well-respected man
    Show some aught to your elders, boy.
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In the first sense, generally found in the phrase "in one's aught" as inː "In my aught, this play ain't worth the candle". In the second sense, generally found in the phrase "of aught" as inː "nothing of aught has happened since you've been away, Sir". In the third sense, generally found in the phrase "a man of aught", or rarely in the more archaic phrase "to show somebody or something (some) aught" as inː "show your mother some aught, son".

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Etymology 4

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Originally the past tense of owe.

Verb

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aught (third-person singular simple present aughts, present participle aughting, simple past and past participle aughted)

  1. Obsolete or dialectal form of ought

Etymology 5

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From Middle English ahte, from Old English eahta (“eight”). More at eight.

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aught

  1. Obsolete or dialectal form of eight.

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Yola

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English aught, from Old English āht, ōht, shortening of āwiht, ōwiht.

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Pronoun

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aught

  1. any, anything
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Geeth hea aught?
      Doth he get any or anything?

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 23

Etymology 2

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Numeral

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aught

  1. Alternative form of ayght (“eight”)
    • 2005, Jacob Poole Of Growtown - And the Yola Dialect‎[1]:
      Numbers: oan, twye, dhree, vowre, veeve, zeese, zeven, aught, ween, dhen.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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