Pronunciations (2)
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/kəˈnʌt/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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/knʌt/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
Noun
An idle upper-class man about town.
Usage- Archaic
- Informal
- Examples
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Oh Hades! the Ladies who leave their wooden huts, For Gilbert the Filbert, the colonel of the knuts...
But they were pleasant people, as a matter of fact, the Local Knuts, I gathered, who owned the Manor House; Sir William Prowse and his lady and his daughter.