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jot
[jot]
verb (used with object)
to write or mark down quickly or briefly (usually followed bydown ).
Jot down his license number.
noun
the least part of something; a little bit.
I don't care a jot.
jot
/ ɒ /
verb
to write a brief note of
noun
(used with a negative) a little bit (in phrases such as not to care ( or give ) a jot )
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of jot1
Idioms and Phrases
not a jot or tittle, not a bit; not at all.
The world situation matters not a jot or tittle to him.
Example Sentences
But his quieter teenage traumas and triumphs, the kind that occurred when he wasn’t busy jotting down ideas and making Super 8 home movies, played out on “Dawson’s Creek.”
Neither Kerry Ives nor Shannon Ives showed "even a jot of concern or care", the prosecutor said.
Daydreaming his way through the galleries, jotting jokes in his notepad, is when he first gained an appreciation for the arts.
“I would take my morning walk, and I would think about it, and I’d come home, and I‘d just jot down ideas on index cards for the first couple of months,” Val Jean recalled.
Rick recommends making this a quarterly event, where you take stock of your subscriptions and jot down "Cancel Hulu" on your to-do list.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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