growed

growed

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊd

Verb

growed

1. (nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of grow
   • 1816, Richard Polwhele, The History of Cornwall

     As he growed in might and strength.

   • 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield:

     Growed, Mas'r Davy bor'? Ain't he growedǃ said Ham.

   • 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

     I s'pect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

   • 1895, Francis Hopkinson Smith, A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others

     See how praoud an' tall he's growed, with them arms of his'n straight aout an' them leetle chillen of his'n spraouting up raound him.

   • 1976, Preston Jones, The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia:

     Well, sir, the idea growed and growed and by the late 1920's there was Knights of the White Magnolia lodges all over Texas and parts of Oklahoma.

   • November 27, 2007, House M.D. Season 4 Episode 9, Games, 36 minutes and 39 seconds in on a Blu-Ray disk.

     He thinks he's gonna be great once he's all growed up.

   • 2011, Rugrats, All Growed Up (name of an episode of the show)
   • 2015?, Gucci Mane (Radric Delantic Davis), Hot Stuff (song)

     Baby come and get it, cos you know I've got that hot stuff / baby come and get it cause you know that I growed up.

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Anagrams

• degrow, edgrow