(adv.) A word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal.
Example Sentences:
Nowt
Definition:
(n. pl.) Neat cattle.
Example Sentences:
(1) It comes to nowt but expanding their horizons may just have done them good in the long term.
(2) Now all the cash is spent, it's still the grand romantic gesture, in another kind of way: dangling a line off the wall at high tide and waiting for a crab, taking him home in my bucket, cooking him on the Campingaz stove, cracking him open and eating him – one of the sea's great bounteous luxuries for nowt.
(3) Talk of Hazel Blears coming out of retirement came to nowt.
(4) Referee: Pavel Kralovec (Czech Republic) Linesmen: Roman Slysko (Slovakia) and Martin Wilczek (Czech Republic) Goal-line officials who some pundits still think do nowt: Radek Pfhoda (Czech Rep) and Micahal Patak (Czech Republic) How City will line up: In a 4-2-3-1, almost certainly, with Pablo Zabaleta and Gael Clichy bookending Matija Nastasic and Vincent Kompany on the right and left of a back four protected by the defensive midfield screen of Javi Garcia and Yaya Toure.
(5) France clear the set piece fairly easily, which should ease the strain on their under-pressure left-back's facial muscles if nowt else.
(6) Tommy’s nowt to worry about,” they used to say on the Fieldhead estate in Birstall, West Yorkshire.
(7) But as my mum liked to tell me: “You can’t look back, lad because there’s nowt there but the dust of the dead.” Now I am in my 90s I know that my time on this Earth is almost done.
(8) Not in the area though, crucially, so you can see why Phil Dowd gave nowt.
(9) They know you don’t get ‘owt for nowt’, and the NHS is way top of their concerns.
(10) #respect August 16, 2015 Alex Walmsley, a prop forward with St Helens, wrote: “Nothing but respect for my good friend and old front row partner @KeeganHirst.” Another message, from a fan, said: “changes nowt pal.
(11) It got a laugh three nights in a row in Hull, but it got nowt in Windsor, Colchester and London.
(12) As my mum once said to me in youth when I was impatient to leave her company: "It costs you nowt but time to have a cuppa with your mum."
(13) On watch, a rifleman scoured the terrain – no sign of life, no shadows, shots from snipers, nowt to note or report.
(14) This is an edited version of a post that first appeared on Jonathan Allsop's personal blog – nowt much to say Are you a member of our online community?
(15) The surgeon, Mr Vickers, looked him clearly in the eye and said, “Mr Eccleston, it’s a very risky operation.” Despite my father’s confusion, he somehow recognised the doctor’s emotion and said, “Listen, you have got to do it for me, because otherwise it’s nowt down for pal [a Salford expression, meaning he would be dead] and, if it goes wrong, it’s not your fault.” When I saw my father showing such empathy, I don’t think I had ever been prouder of him.
(16) Both the suspect and his solicitor, who tells his clients “If in doubt, say nowt”, gave their permission for the interviews to be filmed, and each later contributed to the programme.
(17) However, Sunderland do nowt with it and Kolarov hacks it away.