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plural of knout
Synonyms of knouts
(Entry 1 of 2)
as in quirts, bullwhips
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for knouts
- birches,
- blacksnakes,
- bullwhips,
- cat-o'-nine-tails,
- cowhides,
- crops,
- hickories,
- quirts,
- rattans,
- rawhides,
- straps
- bastinadoes
- (or bastinades),
- batons,
- bats,
- billies,
- billy clubs,
- bludgeons,
- canes,
- clubs,
- cudgels,
- flails,
- nightsticks,
- staffs
- (or staves)
knouts
verb
present tense third-person singular of knout
Synonyms of knouts (Entry 2 of 2)
as in straps, quirts
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for knouts
- birches,
- cowhides,
- flagellates,
- flails,
- flogs,
- hides,
- horsewhips,
- lashes,
- leathers,
- rawhides,
- scourges,
- slashes,
- switches,
- tans,
- thrashes,
- whales,
- whips
- bangs,
- bops,
- boxes,
- busts,
- claps,
- clips,
- clobbers,
- clouts,
- cracks,
- cuffs,
- hits,
- knocks,
- lams,
- pastes,
- punches,
- slaps,
- slugs,
- smacks,
- smites,
- socks,
- spanks,
- swats,
- swipes,
- thwacks,
- wallops,
- whacks
- bashes,
- bastes,
- bats,
- batters,
- beats,
- belabors,
- belts,
- bludgeons,
- buffets,
- bungs,
- drubs,
- fibs
- [British],
- hammers,
- laces,
- lambastes
- (or lambasts),
- lathers,
- licks,
- mangles,
- mauls,
- paddles,
- pelts,
- pommels,
- pounds,
- pummels,
- roughs,
- slates,
- slogs,
- threshes,
- thumps,
- tromps,
- whops
- (or whaps),
- whups,
- works over
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