() 1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. See the Note under Wit, v.
Example Sentences:
(1) Labour's wooing of the tabloids for the past decade and a half was born out of a misguided belief that it really was the Sun "wot won it" for John Major in 1992.
(2) In 2004, Wiley made this explicit in his single Wot U Call It , mocking the record shops, punters and media confused as to where to place him among house, garage, "urban" and grime.
(3) Only a month later, The Sun carried its light bulb lampoon of Kinnock and, when Labour lost the election, crowed: "It was The Sun wot won it."
(4) As the former News Corp executive put it: “As newspaper endorsements become less and less important, this is one way for him to maintain a high political profile.” That trend remains visible in the UK, where Murdoch pushed the power of newspaper endorsements to the limit with the Sun’s famous 1992 front page on the day after the Conservative party’s general election victory: “It’s the Sun Wot Won It” .
(5) But if there is a lasting impression that "It was the Sun wot spun it" then the party may have helped inoculate itself against future attacks.
(6) In the group of 232 inhabitants of the protective zone of Nowa Huta the Steel-Mill (181 women and 51 men) incidence of overweight and obesity was estimated using the Quetelet and Wot indices.
(7) If the group of obese persons was formed on the basis of Wot anthropometric index (which included skinfolds thickness, present body mass and height), significantly lower values of VC and FEV1 were found in comparison to non-obese counterparts.
(8) With the wisdom of hindsight, it is plain to see that despite our support among younger voters, it was the older voters wot won it.
(9) In the end it was not the Sun wot won it but Clegg wot clinched it for Cameron.
(10) id agree that its my 1st film 2 star a pigeon in a prominint role if thats wot u mean lol What was the pigeon supposed to represent?
(11) wots up with that lol You're known for keeping any details about your forthcoming cinematic projects tightly under wraps.
(12) But former deputy prime minister John Prescott said via Twitter: "It will be the Son, Daughter, Uncle, Mother and Friend Wot Win it in 2010.
(13) sportingintelligence (@sportingintel) #mufc sources say successor announcement "soon", and "he'll be cut from same cloth as Ferguson and Busby, and believe in youth development" May 8, 2013 10.36am BST Here's a video wot we made earlier.
(14) The equation of multiple regression used for this purpose takes into account the dependence of spirometric values on age and Wot index.
(15) The pair met in John Major's HQ campaign team in 1992, bright young men with an eye to the main chance, who shared some of the credit when Major came from behind to beat Labour and seed the fateful myth that "It was the Sun Wot Won It".
(16) Had the anti-Common Market side won, it would have been the left wot won it .
(17) Its famous 1992 headline: "It's the Sun wot won it", boasted that the surprise Conservative general election victory was down to its campaign against then Labour leader Neil Kinnock.
(18) This division was based on two indices: W--including height, present body mass and age, Wot--including height, present body mass and skin-folds thickness.
(19) It's quite a bold move, but it will be able to say it was the Standard wot won it."
(20) question, but after Danny Braverman's simple, delicious storytelling show Wot?