Aughter
to own; possess.
to owe (someone or something); be obligated to.
possessed of.
archaic.
ownership; possession.
property; a possession.
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historical examples
i begged, because she aughter know that is a sore point with me and not intention, and she had me on the raw.
believe you me! nina wilc-x putnam
yu’d aughter be ashamed tu send a man egs that wa, anny how.
the history of the hen fever george p. burnham
w’en i wuz erbout fifty years ole, de notion got inter my head dat i aughter preach.
up terrapin river opie p. read
pr-noun
anything at all; anything whatever (esp in the phrase for aught i know)
adverb
(dialect) in any least part; to any degree
noun
a less common word for nought
n.
“something,” old english awiht “aught, anything, something,” literally “e’er a whit,” from proto-germanic -aiwi “ever” (from pie -aiw- “vital force, life, long life, eternity;” see eon) + -wihti “thing, anything whatever” (see wight). in shakespeare, milton and pope, aught and ought occur indiscriminately.
“nothing, zero,” faulty separation of a naught (see naught; cf. also adder for the separation problem).
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