knut
/kəˈnʌt/
knut noun: an idle upper-class man about town.
Noun
knut (plural knuts)
- 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... - But they were pleasant people, as a matter of fact, the Local Knuts, I gathered, who owned the Manor House; Sir William Prowse and his lady and his daughter.1928, H. Russell Wakefield, “The Red Lodge”, in They Return at Evening
- Oh Hades! the Ladies who leave their wooden huts,
Proper noun capitalized: Knut
Knut
- Alternative form of Cnut (“historical name”).
Synonyms of knut
Forms of knut
| plural | knuts |
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Origin of knut
An alteration of nut.
Words that rhyme with knut
Questions about knut
- What does knut mean?
- Knut means an idle upper-class man about town.
- What part of speech is knut?
- Knut can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce knut?
- Knut is pronounced /kəˈnʌt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of knut?
- The plural of knut is knuts.
Words near knut in the dictionary
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