knut

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...

• playboy
• hedonist

• tunk

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

1. gnat

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

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 form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by knute

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

1. alternative form of knute

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

• IPA^(key): /knut/

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• Rhymes: -ut
• Syllabification: knut

knut m inan

1. knout (leather scourge used in imperial Russia)

   Synonyms: harap, nahajka

2. a strike or flogging with a knout

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

From German Knute.

• IPA^(key): /knût/

knȕt m (Cyrillic spelling кну̏т)

1. knout

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).

• IPA^(key): /ˈknʉːt/

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• Rhymes: -ʉːt

knut c

1. a knot (loop, of for example a piece of string)
2. an exterior corner of a (wooden) building

   ett rött hus med vita knutar

   a red house with white corners

3. (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")

corner

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

• galgknut
• husknut
• löpknut
• strypknut

• knyta

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