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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope