different between knout vs knouting

English

Etymology

Via French, from Russian ???? (knut),from Old East Slavic ????? (knut?), from Old Norse knútr (“knot in a cord”). Doublet of knot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [n??t]
• Rhymes: -a?t

Noun

knout (plural knouts)

1. A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.

Translations

Verb

knout (third-person singular simple present knouts, present participle knouting, simple past and past participle knouted)

1. To flog or beat with a knout.
   • 1992, Will Self, Cock and Bull:

     Different, isn’t it? It’s called kava, by the way. The Fijians make it by knouting some root or other.

Synonyms

• (to whip or scourge): Thesaurus:whip

French

Etymology

From Russian ???? (knut), from Old East Slavic ????? (knut?), from Old Norse knútr (“knot”). Doublet of nœud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knut/

Noun

knout m (plural knouts)

1. knout, scourge
2. a flogging administered with such a multiple whip; a condemnation to suffer it

Descendants

• ? English: knout

Further reading

• “knout” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Old Norse (kn?tr), a knot in a cord.

Noun

knouting (plural knoutings)

1. A leather scourge.
2. A flogging with a knout.

   The knouting of the peasants went on for days in revenge for their uprising.

Verb

knouting

1. present participle of knout