Knut

//kəˈnʌt// name, noun, slang

name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An idle upper-class man about town. archaic, informal

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

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Cnut (“historical name”). alt-of, alternative

Synonyms

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

Etymology

An alteration of nut.

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