knew
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English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nyo͞o, IPA(key): /ˈnjuː/
Audio (UK): (file) - (US, Canada) enPR: n(y)o͞o, IPA(key): /ˈn(j)u/
Audio (US): (file) - (Wales, Canada) IPA(key): /nɪu̯/
- Homophone: new
- Rhymes: -uː
Verb
knew
- simple past of know
- (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of know
- 1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, Covici Friede:
- […] I've knew people that if they got a rag rug on the floor and a kewpie doll lamp on the phonograph they think they're runnin' a parlor house.'
- 1999, Steve Lopez, The Sunday Macaroni Club, Plume, →ISBN, page 242:
- Oh, I figured you would've knew. That's where I met Ham and he got me in the DA's office. That was years ago."
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
knew
- Alternative form of kne
Yola
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nuː/
- Homophones: neow, knouth
Verb
knew
- simple past of knouth
- 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, line 9:
- Zien, "a blaak vall, a blaak vall, Ich meigh vella knew,
- Saying "a black fall, a black fall——I might well have known,
References
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129