knowed

English

Verb

knowed

1. (nonstandard, often used by speakers learning English) simple past and past participle of know
   • 1837, Katherine Head, Sketches in Prose and Poetry, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., page 110:

     “And now tell me how you like the Chinese?” “Don’t like ’em at all, — never knowed one of ’em as was good for any thing yet. They are all a set of chop-sticking, tea-drinking, thieving rascals.”

   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Chapter XI”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

     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], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:

     I was pretty tired, and the first thing I knowed I was asleep.

   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 163:

     "If I'd knowed she was going to do it I'd never have signed that there partnership she smoodged me into signing[.]"

   • 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]