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  • ROBERTS: Knut is no longer as "knut" as he used to be.

    CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2007 2007

  • Well, it turns out that Knut is no longer as "knut" as he once was.

    CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2007 2007

  • It was the age of the "knut": o£ "spread" ties with pins in them, of very low cut coats and trousers worn very high to show startling socks, and brogue shoes with immensely wide laces.

    Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955

  • In fact, I admitted to the party, that "I must have looked a 'knut' of the finest type!"

    Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

  • "A 'knut' is a fellow with a drawl and an eyeglass," said someone.

    Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France Vernon Bartlett 1938

  • At home, though the "knut" has been commandeered and nobly transmogrified, though women are increasingly occupied in war work and entering with devotion and self-sacrifice on their new duties as substitutes for men, we have not yet been wholly purged of levity and selfishness.

    Mr. Punch's History of the Great War 1900

  • When the psalms ended, the "knut" came out into the aisle, mounted the steps leading to the lectern, and started to read the first lesson.

    The Ffolliots of Redmarley 1898

  • Eloquent decided grimly, a "knut" of the nuttiest flavour; from the top of his exceedingly smooth head to his admirable grey spats and well-shaped boots, a thoroughly well-dressed young man.

    The Ffolliots of Redmarley 1898

  • The "knut" had somewhat subdued his voice, and even he could not spoil the music and the majesty of the words, "a place of broad rivers and streams wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby."

    The Ffolliots of Redmarley 1898

  • The FOX news group IS trying (ala rush, dickie, knut, mc cain) their very best to make President Obama bad news.

    Obama takes aim at Fox News 2009

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