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Dutch
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈknuf.tə(n)/
- Hyphenation: knoef‧ten
Verb
knoeften
- (Belgium, specifically Antwerp) to work laboriously or hard
2012 February 1, “De triomfantelijke solotocht van grootmeester Albert”, in 't Pallieterke, volume 67, number 5, page 15:Onze Niels reed half koers, met nog vijf rondjes te “knoeften”, moederziel alleen, met een halve minuut voorsprong.- Our Niels was riding halfway down the race, with five more laps to toil ahead, completely alone, with a lead of half a minute.
- 2012 December/2013 January, Maarten Bernaerts, "Een tekst schrijven, dat is knoeften", Gazet van Zurenborg, page 32.
Bert Dockx: “Om de zoveel maanden komt er eens een tekst vlot uit. Maar voor de rest is dat knoeften. Dan ben je soms uren bezig zonder resultaat.”- Bert Dockx: "Once in a few months a text will come out naturally. But at other times it is drudgery. Sometimes you are then working at it for hours without any result."
- Synonyms: hosselen, ploeteren, zwoegen
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