knout

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — In Moscow, a Court carbonadoes / His ignorant serfs with the knout; / […] / But Eton has crueller terrors / Than these,—in the Windsor Express.
动词 v.
  1. To flog or beat with a knout.
    — Different, isn’t it? It’s called kava, by the way. The Fijians make it by knouting some root or other.

词形变化

knouts plural knouts present,singular,third-person knouting participle,present knouted participle,past knouted past

词源

词源 1
Via French knout from Russian кнут (knut), from Old East Slavic кнутъ (knutŭ), from Old Norse knútr (“knot in a cord”). Doublet of knot, node, and nodus.
词源 2
Via French knout from Russian кнут (knut), from Old East Slavic кнутъ (knutŭ), from Old Norse knútr (“knot in a cord”). Doublet of knot, node, and nodus.
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