Verb

1. To know.
   • 1531: And he answered them, take me and cast me in to the sea, and so shall it let you be in rest: for I wot, it is for my sake, that this great tempest is come upon you. — William Tyndale, The Prophet Ionas.
   • 1855: She little wots, poor Lady Anne! Her wedded lord is dead. — John Godfrey Saxe, Poems (Ticknor & Fields 1855, p. 121)
   • 1866: They wot not who make thither — Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Garden of Proserpine" in Poems and Ballads, 1st Series (London: J. C. Hotten, 1866)
   • 1889: Then he cast his eyes on the road that entered the Market-stead from the north, and he saw thereon many men gathered; and he wotted not what they were — William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains (Inkling Books 2003, p. 241)

Verb

1. First-person singular simple present form of wit.

Interjection

1. what (humorous misspelling intended to mimic certain working class accents)
   • 1859: Then, wot with undertakers, and wot with parish clerks, and wot with sextons, and wot with private watchmen (all awaricious and all in it), a man wouldn't get much by it, even if it was so. — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin 2003, p. 319)