knut

An alteration of nut.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈnʌt/
• Rhymes: -ʌt

knut (plural knuts)

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

   Synonyms: playboy, hedonist

   Oh Hades! the Ladies who leave their wooden huts,
   For Gilbert the Filbert, the colonel of the knuts...

• tunk

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

1. gnat

Unadapted borrowing from Russian кну́т (knút).

• IPA^(key): /ˈknut/
• Rhymes: -ut
• Hyphenation: knùt

knut m (invariable)

2. knout (kind of whip)

   Hypernym: frusta

• knut in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• knut in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• knut in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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 form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by knute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): /ˈknut/

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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

Borrowed from German Knute.

• IPA^(key): /knût/

knȕt m inan (Cyrillic spelling кну̏т)

1. knout

Unadapted borrowing from Russian кну́т (knút).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡnut/ [ˈɡnut̪]
• Rhymes: -ut
• Syllabification: knut

knut m (plural knut)

2. knout (kind of whip)

   Hypernym: látigo

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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

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

   Synonym: husknut

   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")

corner

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

• knyta

• knop

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