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Knouted vs Knotted - What's the difference?

knouted | knotted |

As verbs the difference between knouted and knotted

is that knouted is (knout) while knotted is (knot).

knouted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (knout)

    • knout

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • * 1980': Spray and then slogging '''knouts of water hit the windows or lights like snarling disaffected at a mansion of the rich and frivolous. — Anthony Burgess, ''Earthly Powers
  • * 2005': The lieutenant gave him twenty strokes of the '''knout and stuck him in a cage for a few days till the snow was ankle deep. — James Meek, ''The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 193)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
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    knotted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (knot)
  • * To exhibit several overlapping knots; to be full of knots.
    • He arrives at school every day with his shoestrings all knotted.
  • * To be composed of or decorated with knots.
    • ''Her macrame basket hangers are so well knotted .
  • * To be or to become anxious; to experience doubt or fear; to empathize strongly.
    • I get all knotted up when I see a traffic accident.