different between knout vs knut

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

Noun

knut (plural knuts)

1. (archaic, informal, Edwardian) 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...

Synonyms

• playboy
• hedonist

References

Anagrams

• tunk

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

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

1. gnat

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

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 form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by knute

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

1. alternative form of knute

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knut/

Noun

knut m inan

1. knout (leather scourge)

   Synonyms: harap, nahajka

Declension

Derived terms

• knutowa?
• knutowy

Further reading

• knut in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• knut in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Knute.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knût/

Noun

kn?t m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. knout

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish kn?ter from Old Norse knútr, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (compare *knuttan-, whence English knot).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kn??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

knut c

1. knot; a looping of a piece of string
2. an exterior corner of a building

Usage notes

corner

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

Declension

Related terms

• knyta

References

• knut in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)