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单词 god it wot
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God (†it) wot
(a) God (it) wot: God knows. Cf. goddot int. [Compare Dutch godeweet (interjection) truly; compare also early use as a surname: Thomas Godwot (1328), John Godwot (1371).]
(i) Used with an indirect question to imply that something is unknown to the speaker, and probably to any other human being. Obsolete.In quot. OE as God āna wāt: ‘God alone knows’.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > that which is unknown > [phrase] > expressing lack of knowledge
God wotOE
God or Crist witec1175
Lord knows1614
Heaven knowsa1628
the stars know what (also how, etc.)1760
OE Fortunes of Men 8 God ana wat hwæt him weaxendum winter bringað.
a1400 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 263 (MED) Deȝe we ssulin sikerliche, bot god wot wanne & were.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. l. 586 Oft failȝeis the fulis thocht And wys mennys etling Cummys nocht ay to that ending That thai think it sall cum to For God wate weill quhat is to do.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 765 Sent, no man wist whether, to be done wyth, God wot what.
1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III iii. 85 Their bodies were bestowed God wot where.
(ii) Used to emphasize the truth of a statement. Now archaic (chiefly in echoes of quot. 1893).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [adverb] > as emphasis
God (it) wot?c1225
goddot?a1289
sooth to sayc1330
truth (also sooth) to tella1375
honestly1819
honest Indian1854
truthfully1854
honest Injun1857
on the level1872
straight1874
honest1876
square dinkum1888
no kidding1901
straight-up1963
OE St. Mary of Egypt (Julius) (2002) 84 God wat þæt ic heora forhtige.]
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 93 God hit wat þe put deð muche god. moni ancre.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2527 Þer-of held he wel his oth, For he it made, god it woth.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 4473 God wat..I sal vndo þe wele þi sueuen.
a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. A.vii Than renne they in euery stede God wot with dronken nolles.
1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 61 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 263 He went fra hame god wait on weddinsday.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Richard III (1623) ii. iii. 18 Stood the State so? No, no, good friends, God wot [1597 not so].
a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Ephes. (1643) i. 214 Commonly the most Christians are counted good men godwot, but simple soules, of no parts.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 157 God wot, his shield is blank enough.
1893 T. E. Brown My Garden in Old John & Other Poems 177 A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
1905 A. C. Swinburne Poems III. 134 For all my subtle wiles, perdie, God wot I loved him well enow.
1938 K. A. Porter Let. 21 Nov. (1990) 168 A provincial Rotary-club-minded University is a fearsome spot, God wot.
1996 Church Times 19 Jan. 11/1 The idea that a bishop is an awesome thing God wot.
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God it wot
11. God wot (also †God it wot, †Godwot, God ote, goddot int.): God knows.
a. Used to emphasize the truth of a statement. archaic. So †wot Christ.
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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [phrase] > with reference to God
God wot?c1225
wot Christ?c1225
God is my witness1297
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 245 Wat crist god richt is þet us scheome bifore mon.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 44 God wat..mare wunder ilomp.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2527 For he it made, god it woth!
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2527 Þer-of held he wel his oth, For he it [a priory] made, god it woth.
c1400 Anturs Arth. (Taylor) 547 ‘Greselle’, quod Gauan, ‘gone is, God ote!’
1865 [see α. forms].
1883 R. Broughton Belinda III. iii. ix. 83 She has good reasons enough, God wot!
1893 T. E. Brown Old John & Other Poems 177 A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
b. With dependent interrogative or absol., implying that the thing spoken of is utterly unknown.
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1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 3 What schal befalle hierafterward God wot.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xii. 53 I wate noȝt; God wate.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1201 I am I-weddit! ȝe, God woot beste, in what maner & howe!
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) f. 69/1 Theyr bodies cast god wote where.
1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xiii. 134 God wait gif ȝe be Jaips to hald in stoir.
a1586 Peblis to Play in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 176 God wait þai wald þai do þat stound.
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