Word: knout
Category: knout
Sports, Reference, Games
Synonyms: knout
waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels
Translations: knout
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german
Translations:
knute
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french
Translations:
knout
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russian
Translations:
кнут
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czech
Translations:
knuta
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polish
Translations:
knut, knucie
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estonian
Translations:
nuut
The meaning and "use of": knout
noun
- (in imperial Russia) a whip used to inflict punishment, often causing death. - Hugo Haase told the French socialists that ‘what the Prussian boot means to you, the Russian knout means to us’.
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