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Knowed vs Nowed - What's the difference?

knowed | nowed |

As a verb knowed

is (nonstandard) alternative form of knew.

As an adjective nowed is

(heraldry) knotted; tied in a knot.

knowed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (nonstandard) Alternative form of knew.
  • (nonstandard) (know)
  • * 1853 ,
    • Is made more imbecile by being constantly informed that Mrs. Green’s son “was a law-writer his-self and knowed him better than anybody,” which son of Mrs. Green’s appears, on inquiry, to be at the present time aboard a vessel bound for China, three months out, but considered accessible by telegraph on application to the Lords of the Admiralty.
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII
    • I was pretty tired, and the first thing I knowed I was asleep.
  • * 1962 ,
    • And it ain't no use in light babe: the light I never knowed.

    nowed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (heraldry) Knotted; tied in a knot.
    • ''a serpent nowed
    (Webster 1913)