Wut - Wiktionary

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Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping of English Wutung.

Symbol

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wut

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Wutung.

See also

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  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Wutung terms

English

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Pronunciation

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  • (US) IPA(key): /wʌt/
  • Rhymes: -ʌt

Interjection

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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

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  • woat
  • wot

Derived terms

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  • lolwut
  • lol wut

Anagrams

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  • TWU

Dinka

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Etymology

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

Noun

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wut (plural wuut)

  1. ostrich (Struthio camelus)

References

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  • Roger Blench (2005), Dinka-English Dictionary‎[1], page 188

Kwama

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Noun

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wut

  1. ostrich

References

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

Southwestern Dinka

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Noun

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wut (plural wuɔ̈t)

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

References

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  • Dinka-English Dictionary‎[3], 2005

Yola

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /wʊt/

Noun

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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

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  • 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

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