knut

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

• playboy
• hedonist

Anagrams

• tunk

Dutch

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 form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by knute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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knut/

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• Rhymes: -ut
• Syllabification: knut

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

• knutowy

 

verb

• knutować

 

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

• IPA^(key): /knût/

Noun

knȕt m (Cyrillic spelling кну̏т)

1. knout

Swedish

en knut (skoknut) (sense 1)

en röd stuga med vita knutar [a red cottage with white corners] (sense 2)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈknʉːt/

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• Rhymes: -ʉːt

Noun

knut c

2. a knot (loop, of for example a piece of string)

   knyta en knut

   tie a knot

4. an exterior corner of a (wooden) building

   ett rött hus med vita knutar

   a red house with white corners

5. (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

• dubbelknut
• galgknut
• husknut
• löpknut
• strypknut

Related terms

• knyta

See also

• knop

References

• knut in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• knut in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• knut in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)