knut

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See also: Knut and knút

English

Noun

knut (plural knuts)

  1. (archaic, informal, Edwardian) An idle upper-class man about town.
    Oh Hades! the Ladies who leave their wooden huts,
    For Gilbert the Filbert, the colonel of the knuts...

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Edwardian Slang Terms

Anagrams

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Noun

knut f or m (plural knutten, diminutive knutje n)

  1. gnat

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

knut m (definite singular knuten, indefinite plural knuter, definite plural knutene)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by knute

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

knut m (definite singular knuten, indefinite plural knutar, definite plural knutane)

  1. alternative form of knute

Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from Russian кнут (knut), from Old East Slavic кнутъ (knutŭ), from Old Norse knútr (“knot”).

Pronunciation

Noun

knut m inan

  1. knout (leather scourge used in imperial Russia)
    Synonyms: harap, nahajka
  2. a strike or flogging with a knout

Declension

Declension of knut
singular plural
nominative knut knuty
genitive knuta knutów
dative knutowi knutom
accusative knut knuty
instrumental knutem knutami
locative knucie knutach
vocative knucie knuty

Derived terms

adjective
verb

Further reading

  • knut in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • knut in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Knute.

Pronunciation

Noun

knȕt m (Cyrillic spelling кну̏т)

  1. knout

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish knūter from Old Norse knútr, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (compare *knuttan-, whence English knot). Originally of corner joints of log cabins in (sense 2).

Pronunciation

Noun

knut c

  1. a knot (loop, of for example a piece of string)
  3. an exterior corner of a (wooden) building
    ett rött hus med vita knutar
    a red house with white corners
  4. (in "inpå knutarna") very close to the house, on one's doorstep
    Vi har grannarna inpå knutarna
    Our neighbors' house is very close to ours ("we have our neighbors close to the corners of our house")

Usage notes

corner

In particular used of log cabins, but also generalized to small and medium sized buildings.

Declension

Declension of knut 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative knut knuten knutar knutarna
Genitive knuts knutens knutars knutarnas

Derived terms

References

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