knowed
English
Verb
knowed
- (nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of know
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Chapter XI”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, OCLC 999756093:
- Is made more imbecile by being constantly informed that Mrs. Green’s son “was a law-writer his-self and knowed him better than anybody,” which son of Mrs. Green’s appears, on inquiry, to be at the present time aboard a vessel bound for China, three months out, but considered accessible by telegraph on application to the Lords of the Admiralty.
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter VII”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182:
- I was pretty tired, and the first thing I knowed I was asleep.
- 1962, Bob Dylan, "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right": Verse II
- And it ain't no use in a-turning on yer light babe: the light I never knowed.
- 2005, Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men, →ISBN, page 179:
- [Carla Jean, to Chigurh about to kill her:] I knowed you was crazy when I seen you settin there, she said. I knowed exactly what was in store for me. Even if I couldnt of said it. [sic]
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