wut

See also: Wut

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /wʌt/
• Rhymes: -ʌt

Interjection

wut

1. (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 phrase became increasingly popular in the early 2000s due to internet culture.

Coordinate terms

• woat
• wot

 

Derived terms

• lolwut
• lol wut

 

Anagrams

• TWU

Dinka

Etymology

Cognate with Komo wuut, Shilluk wudø, Jumjum uuro, Gaam urii, Kwama wut.

Noun

wut (plural wuut)

1. ostrich

References

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎^[1], 2005

Kwama

Noun

wut

1. ostrich

References

• Goldberg, Justin, Asadik, Habte, Bekama, Jiregna, Mengistu, Mulat (2016) Gwama – English Dictionary‎^[2], SIL International

Southwestern Dinka

Noun

wut (plural wuɔ̈t)

1. cattle camp
2. stable
3. a section of a subtribe

References

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎^[3], 2005

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English wit, from Old English witt, from Proto-West Germanic *witi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wʊt/

Noun

wut

1. 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

• 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