Meaning & use
Nout
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Nothing, a dialectal form used chiefly in Northern English speech.
See it in a sentence
"There's nout wrong with the engine," the mechanic insisted after checking it twice.
He said nout the whole way home, still fuming about the argument.
A note on using this word
"Nout" is a regional variant of "nowt," both descending from the Old English "nawiht," and is still commonly heard in Yorkshire and other Northern English dialects.
Words with a similar meaning
nowtnothing
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Words with an opposite meaning
owtsomething
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