knut
English
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editknut (plural knuts)
- (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...
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Noun
editknut f or m (plural knutten, diminutive knutje n)
Norwegian Bokmål
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editknut m (definite singular knuten, indefinite plural knuter, definite plural knutene)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by knute
Norwegian Nynorsk
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editknut m (definite singular knuten, indefinite plural knutar, definite plural knutane)
- alternative form of knute
Polish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Russian кнут (knut), from Old East Slavic кнутъ (knutŭ), from Old Norse knútr (“knot”).
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editNoun
editknut m inan
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editknȕt m (Cyrillic spelling кну̏т)
Swedish
editEtymology
editFrom 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).
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editNoun
editknut c
- a knot (loop, of for example a piece of string)
- knyta en knut
- tie a knot
- an exterior corner of a (wooden) building
- ett rött hus med vita knutar
- a red house with white corners
- (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
edit- corner
In particular used of log cabins, but also generalized to small and medium sized buildings.
Declension
editnominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | knut | knuts |
definite | knuten | knutens | |
plural | indefinite | knutar | knutars |
definite | knutarna | knutarnas |
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