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jot
[ jot ]
verb (used with object)
- to write or mark down quickly or briefly (usually followed by down ):
Jot down his license number.
noun
- the least part of something; a little bit:
I don't care a jot.
jot
/ ɒ /
verb
- trusually foll bydown 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
“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.
On a few mornings subsequent to my decision to pay more attention to my feelings, I’d jot down a line or two.
He handed her a coffee-stained note with a few lyrics jotted down and said, “Make this into a song.”
Sure, I glanced over the directions as I jotted down the ingredients, but I remembered making it, on more than one occasion, with Mom, so I was not worried . . . easy, peasy.
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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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