Meaning of AUGHT
| Pronunciation: | | oxht
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| | Definition: | | [n] a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" |
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| | Synonyms: | | cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip |
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| | See Also: | | bugger all, Fanny Adams, fuck all, nihil, relative quantity, sweet Fanny Adams | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Aught\, Aucht \Aucht\, n. [AS. ?ht, fr. [=a]gan to own,
p. p. [=a]hte.]
Property; possession. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
\Aught\, n. [OE. aught, ought, awiht, AS. [=a]wiht, [=a]
ever + wiht. [root]136. See {Aye} ever, and {Whit}, {Wight}.]
Anything; any part. [Also written {ought}.]
There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord
has spoken. --Josh. xxi.
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But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. --Addison.
\Aught\ ([add]t), adv.
At all; in any degree. --Chaucer.
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| | Related Terms: | | aggrandize, any, any one, anybody, anyone, anything, augment, beef up, boost, cipher, either, enlarge, exalt, expand, extend, goose egg, heighten, hike, magnify, multiply, nada, naught, nichts, nihil, nil, nix, no such thing, nothing, nothing at all, nothing on earth, nothing whatever, raise, some, something, somewhat, thing of naught, zero, zilch |
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