wot

1. non-standard spelling of what.

   ‘Wot a night!’ wheezed an old farmer

verb

singular present of wit².

1. have knowledge.

   I addressed a few words to the lady you wot of

2. that is to say (used to be more specific about something already referred to).

   the textbooks show an irritating parochialism, to wit an almost total exclusion of papers not in English

Old English witan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch weten and German wissen, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit veda ‘knowledge’ and Latin videre ‘see’.