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aught (ôt)

noun

  1. anything whatever for aught I know

  2. Etymology: < a naught (see naught), by faulty separation into an aught

    a zero

Etymology: ME < OE awiht < a, ever + wiht, a creature, wight

adverb

Archaic to any degree; at all

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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