wot

Etymology 1

An extension of the present-tense form of wit (verb) to apply to all forms.

verb

1. (archaic) To know (in the sense of knowing a fact).
   She little wots, poor Lady Anne! Her wedded lord is dead. 1855, John Godfrey Saxe, Poems, Ticknor & Fields, published 1855, page 121
   They wot not who make thither […] 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Garden of Proserpine" in Poems and Ballads, 1st Series, London: J. C. Hotten, 1866
   They sped under the moonlight as silent as a shadow, visible only to cats and to people who dabbled in things men were not meant to wot of. 1988, Terry Pratchett, Mort, Corgi, published 1988, page 91

Etymology 2

From wit, in return from Old English witan.

verb

1. first-person singular present indicative of wit
2. third-person singular simple present indicative of wit

Etymology 3

Representing pronunciation.

intj

1. Eye dialect spelling of what.
   Wot, no bananas? ― (popular slogan during wartime rationing)

pron

1. Eye dialect spelling of what.
   Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got / The pip wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot. 1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13

Etymology 4

adv

1. (Singlish) Alternative form of what (used to contradict an assumption)