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knut
jocular variant, often pronounced |kəˈnʌt|, of nut n.1 9 (a fashionable or showy young man). Hence ˈknutty a.
1911Granta 25 Nov. 136/2 He, Timothy Gray, bhoy, lad, knut. 1913L. A. Harker Ffolliots of Redmarley v. 57 He was..a ‘knut’ of the nuttiest flavour. 1914Scotsman 5 Oct. 8/1 It is clear that he has once been a ‘knut’ in spite of his oil-stained khaki service jacket and trousers. 1915A. Wimperis Gilbert the Filbert (song), I'm Gilbert, the Filbert, The Colonel of the Knuts. 1916E. V. Lucas Vermilion Box 52 Among the people staying here is a knut. He must be almost the last of the tribe; but here he is, just as knutty as though the Algies and Berties were still ruling the roast, and not Mars at all. 1919C. Orr Glorious Thing xvii. 212 He was trying to be knutty, he said. 1929G. Stowell Hist. Button Hill 183 The Knut was an urban and suburban phenomenon of the years 1912 to 1914 inclusive. 1973Listener 6 Sept. 320 The ‘silly asses’, the ‘knuts’ who were wiped out on the Somme. |