knut

See also: Knut and knút

English

Noun

knut (plural knuts)

  1. (archaic, informal, Edwardian) An idle upper-class man-about-town[1]
    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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Noun

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

  1. gnat

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Knute.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /knût/

Noun

knȕt m (Cyrillic spelling кну̏т)

  1. knout

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse knútr, from Proto-Germanic (compare *knuttan-, whence English knot).

Pronunciation
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  • Rhymes: -ʉːt

Noun

knut c

  1. knot; a looping of a piece of string
  2. an exterior corner of a building

Usage notes
corner

In particular used about 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
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