Associations to the word «Knut»

Wiktionary

KNUT, noun. (archaic) (informal) (Edwardian) An idle upper-class man-about-town

Dictionary definition

KNUT, noun. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him; on the death of Edmund II, Canute became king of all England (994-1035).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats