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whit

  [hwit, wit]
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–noun
a particle; bit; jot (used esp. in negative phrases): not a whit better.
Origin:
1470–80; perh. alter. of ME wiht wight 1
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whit   (hwĭt, wĭt)   
n.  The least bit; an iota: doesn't give a whit what was said; not a whit afraid.

[Middle English, amount, from Old English wiht; see wight1.]
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whit 
"smallest particle," 12c., in na whit "no amount," from O.E. nan wiht, from wiht "amount," originally "person, human being" (see wight).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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