- a variation of naught.
nought
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See “something will turn up” and “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
From 51-0, Scotland were 58-4 with Sarah and Kathryn Bryce out for nought and four respectively.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
History has taught you that pouring out your time, energy and emotions will similarly come to nought.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026
Root said he did not feel like he needed to bat in Canberra, despite falling to Mitchell Starc for scores of nought and eight in Perth.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025
"Do you Starks have nought but snow between your ears?"
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
One complained that children had used the forms to play noughts and crosses.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2022
Working with just ones, noughts, and a saucerful of secrets, these ground-breaking artists stand front and centre of any modern corporate or commerical strategy.
From Forbes ● Jun. 30, 2015
Come the naughty noughts, bulging upper-body muscles were eventually co-opted by the Jersey Shore crowd whereupon they gradually lost much of their frisson.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2015
A standard calculator only has room for seven noughts.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2015
To my mind little Charles is one of the noughts.
From The Justice of the King by Drummond, Hamilton
