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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 wight¹

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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).

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whit
noun
a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: shred]

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Whit

Aught\, n. [OE. aught, ought, awiht, AS. [=a]wiht, [=a] ever + wiht. [root]136. See Aye ever, and Whit, Wight.] Anything; any part. [Also written ought.]

There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord has spoken. --Josh. xxi. 45

But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. --Addison.

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