wut
See also: Wut
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
wut
- (Internet slang, nonstandard, eye dialect) What, both in its standard meaning as an interjection, but especially as a response to an outrageous or unexpected statement. This frase became increasingly popular in the early 2000s due to internet culture.
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Dinka edit
Etymology edit
Cognate with Komo wuut, Shilluk wudø, Jumjum uuro, Gaam urii, Kwama wut.
Noun edit
wut (plural wuut)
References edit
- Dinka-English Dictionary[1], 2005
Kwama edit
Noun edit
wut
References edit
- Goldberg, Justin, Asadik, Habte, Bekama, Jiregna, Mengistu, Mulat (2016) Gwama – English Dictionary[2], SIL International
Southwestern Dinka edit
Noun edit
wut (plural wuɔ̈t)
References edit
- Dinka-English Dictionary[3], 2005
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English wit, from Old English witt, from Proto-West Germanic *witi.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
wut
- wit
- 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 108:
- Hea had no much wut,
- He had not much wit,
References edit
- 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 79