Norwegian

Proper noun

Knut

1. A male given name.

Related terms

• (surnames) Knudsen, Knutsen

References

• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 26 771 males with the given name Knut living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse Knútr, cognate with English Canute and Danish Knud.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʉːt

Proper noun

Knut

1. A male given name.

Related terms

• (surnames) Knutsson

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 15 750 males with the given name Knut living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1910s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

English

Noun

knut ‎(plural knuts)

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

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

Synonyms

• playboy
• hedonist

References

1. ↑ Edwardian Slang Terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

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

1. gnat

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Knute.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knût/

Noun

knȕt m ‎(Cyrillic spelling кну̏т)

1. knout

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse knútr, from Proto-Germanic (compare *knuttan-, whence English knot).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʉːt

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