Words that rhyme with knout

  • about
    adv 1: (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party" [syn: approximately, about, close to, just about, some, roughly, more or less, around, or so] 2: all around or on all sides; "dirty clothes lying around (or about)"; "let's look about for help"; "There were trees growing all around"; "she looked around her" [syn: about, around] 3: in the area or vicinity; "a few spectators standing about"; "hanging around"; "waited around for the next flight" [syn: about, around] 4: used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction; "wandering about with no place to go"; "people were rushing about"; "news gets around (or about)"; "traveled around in Asia"; "he needs advice from someone who's been around"; "she sleeps around" [syn: about, around] 5: in or to a reversed position or direction; "about face"; "suddenly she turned around" [syn: about, around] 6: in rotation or succession; "turn about is fair play" 7: (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but; "the job is (just) about done"; "the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the recording is well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the parties signed the contract"; "I was near exhausted by the run"; "most everyone agrees" [syn: about, almost, most, nearly, near, nigh, virtually, well-nigh] adj 1: on the move; "up and about"; "the whole town was astir over the incident" [syn: about(p), astir(p)]
  • boot
    n 1: footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg 2: British term for the luggage compartment in a car 3: the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" [syn: bang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick] 4: protective casing for something that resembles a leg 5: an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg [syn: boot, the boot, iron boot, iron heel] 6: a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed 7: the act of delivering a blow with the foot; "he gave the ball a powerful kick"; "the team's kicking was excellent" [syn: kick, boot, kicking] v 1: kick; give a boot to 2: cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes; "boot your computer" [syn: boot, reboot, bring up]
  • bout
    n 1: (sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive [syn: turn, bout, round] 2: a period of illness; "a bout of fever"; "a bout of depression" 3: a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers) 4: an occasion for excessive eating or drinking; "they went on a bust that lasted three days" [syn: bust, tear, binge, bout]
  • bruit
    v 1: tell or spread rumors; "It was rumored that the next president would be a woman" [syn: rumor, rumour, bruit]
  • brut
    adj 1: (of champagne) extremely dry
  • brute
    adj 1: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal] n 1: a cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat] 2: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna]
  • butte
    n 1: a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides 2: a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper
  • chute
    n 1: rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall [syn: parachute, chute] 2: sloping channel through which things can descend [syn: chute, slide, slideway, sloping trough] v 1: jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute [syn: chute, parachute, jump]
  • clout
    n 1: a target used in archery 2: special advantage or influence; "the chairman's nephew has a lot of pull" [syn: pull, clout] 3: a short nail with a flat head; used to attach sheet metal to wood [syn: clout nail, clout] 4: (boxing) a blow with the fist; "I gave him a clout on his nose" [syn: punch, clout, poke, lick, biff, slug] v 1: strike hard, especially with the fist; "He clouted his attacker"
  • coot
    n 1: slate-black slow-flying birds somewhat resembling ducks
  • cute
    adj 1: attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby" [syn: cunning, cute] 2: obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms" [syn: cute, precious]
  • devout
    adj 1: deeply religious; "a god-fearing and law-abiding people" H.L.Mencken [syn: devout, god-fearing] 2: earnest; "one's dearest wish"; "devout wishes for their success"; "heartfelt condolences" [syn: dear, devout, earnest, heartfelt]
  • doubt
    n 1: the state of being unsure of something [syn: doubt, uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness, dubiousness] [ant: certainty] 2: uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something; "the dubiousness of his claim"; "there is no question about the validity of the enterprise" [syn: doubt, dubiousness, doubtfulness, question] v 1: consider unlikely or have doubts about; "I doubt that she will accept his proposal of marriage" 2: lack confidence in or have doubts about; "I doubt these reports"; "I suspect her true motives"; "she distrusts her stepmother"
  • drought
    n 1: a shortage of rainfall; "farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season" [syn: drought, drouth] 2: a prolonged shortage; "when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought" [syn: drought, drouth]
  • flout
    v 1: treat with contemptuous disregard; "flout the rules" [syn: scoff, flout] 2: laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker" [syn: jeer, scoff, flout, barrack, gibe]
  • flute
    n 1: a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown [syn: flute, transverse flute] 2: a tall narrow wineglass [syn: flute, flute glass, champagne flute] 3: a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column) [syn: flute, fluting] v 1: form flutes in
  • fruit
    n 1: the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant 2: an amount of a product [syn: yield, fruit] 3: the consequence of some effort or action; "he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies" v 1: cause to bear fruit 2: bear fruit; "the trees fruited early this year"
  • gout
    n 1: a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints [syn: gout, gouty arthritis, urarthritis]
  • grout
    n 1: a thin mortar that can be poured and used to fill cracks in masonry or brickwork v 1: bind with grout; "grout the bathtub"
  • hoot
    n 1: a loud raucous cry (as of an owl) 2: a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt [syn: boo, hoot, Bronx cheer, hiss, raspberry, razzing, razz, snort, bird] 3: something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn: damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam] v 1: to utter a loud clamorous shout; "the toughs and blades of the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play dice, and dance" 2: utter the characteristic sound of owls
  • jute
    n 1: a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks 2: a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Saxons to become Anglo-Saxons
  • kraut
    n 1: offensive term for a person of German descent [syn: Kraut, Krauthead, Boche, Jerry, Hun]
  • loot
    n 1: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money] 2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] v 1: take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors" [syn: loot, plunder] 2: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray]
  • lout
    n 1: an awkward stupid person [syn: lout, clod, stumblebum, goon, oaf, lubber, lummox, lump, gawk]
  • lute
    n 1: a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid [syn: lute, luting] 2: chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear- shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard
  • moot
    adj 1: of no legal significance (as having been previously decided) 2: open to argument or debate; "that is a moot question" [syn: arguable, debatable, disputable, moot] n 1: a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise; "he organized the weekly moot" v 1: think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind" [syn: consider, debate, moot, turn over, deliberate]
  • mute
    adj 1: expressed without speech; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe [syn: mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless] 2: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn: dumb, mute, silent] n 1: a deaf person who is unable to speak [syn: mute, deaf- mute, deaf-and-dumb person] 2: a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument v 1: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn: muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down]
  • newt
    n 1: small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia [syn: newt, triton]
  • out
    adv 1: away from home; "they went out last night" 2: moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden; "the cat came out from under the bed"; 3: from one's possession; "he gave out money to the poor"; "gave away the tickets" [syn: away, out] adj 1: not allowed to continue to bat or run; "he was tagged out at second on a close play"; "he fanned out" [ant: safe(p)] 2: being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out" [syn: extinct, out(p)] 3: not worth considering as a possibility; "a picnic is out because of the weather" 4: out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election; "now the Democrats are out" 5: excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject" [syn: forbidden, out(p), prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten] 6: directed outward or serving to direct something outward; "the out doorway"; "the out basket" 7: no longer fashionable; "that style is out these days" 8: outside or external; "the out surface of a ship's hull" 9: outer or outlying; "the out islands" 10: knocked unconscious by a heavy blow [syn: knocked out(p), kayoed, KO'd, out(p), stunned] n 1: (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball; "you only get 3 outs per inning" v 1: to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality; "This actor outed last year" [syn: come out of the closet, out, come out] 2: reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle; "The gay actor was outed last week"; "Someone outed a CIA agent" 3: be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The truth will out" [syn: out, come out]
  • pout
    n 1: a disdainful grimace [syn: pout, moue, wry face] 2: marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas [syn: eelpout, pout] 3: catfish common in eastern United States [syn: horned pout, hornpout, pout, Ameiurus Melas] v 1: be in a huff and display one's displeasure; "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted" [syn: sulk, pout, brood] 2: make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip; "mop and mow"; "The girl pouted" [syn: pout, mop, mow]
  • redoubt
    n 1: (military) a temporary or supplementary fortification; typically square or polygonal without flanking defenses 2: an entrenched stronghold or refuge
  • root
    n 1: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground 2: the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn: beginning, origin, root, rootage, source] 3: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical] 4: a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number 5: the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation [syn: solution, root] 6: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) [syn: ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root] [ant: descendant, descendent] 7: a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes [syn: etymon, root] 8: the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support [syn: root, tooth root] v 1: take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly" 2: come into existence, originate; "The problem roots in her depression" 3: plant by the roots 4: dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" [syn: rout, root, rootle] 5: become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down" [syn: settle, root, take root, steady down, settle down] 6: cause to take roots
  • rout
    n 1: a disorderly crowd of people [syn: mob, rabble, rout] 2: an overwhelming defeat v 1: cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves" [syn: rout, rout out, expel] 2: dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" [syn: rout, root, rootle] 3: make a groove in [syn: rout, gouge] 4: defeat disastrously [syn: spread-eagle, spreadeagle, rout]
  • route
    n 1: an established line of travel or access [syn: path, route, itinerary] 2: an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation [syn: road, route] v 1: send documents or materials to appropriate destinations 2: send via a specific route 3: divert in a specified direction; "divert the low voltage to the engine cylinders"
  • scoot
    v 1: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot]
  • scout
    n 1: a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event [syn: lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket] 2: a Boy Scout or Girl Scout 3: someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports) [syn: scout, talent scout] 4: someone who can find paths through unexplored territory [syn: scout, pathfinder, guide] v 1: explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody [syn: scout, reconnoiter, reconnoitre]
  • shoot
    n 1: a new branch 2: the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer" v 1: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: shoot, hit, pip] 2: kill by firing a missile [syn: shoot, pip] 3: fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away" [syn: blast, shoot] 4: make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" [syn: film, shoot, take] 5: send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance" 6: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot] 7: move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" [syn: tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck] 8: throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball" 9: record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" [syn: photograph, snap, shoot] 10: emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully; "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth" 11: cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg" 12: force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon" [syn: inject, shoot] 13: variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors; "shoot cloth" 14: throw dice, as in a crap game 15: spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away] 16: score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal" 17: utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer" 18: measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star" 19: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" [syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout] 20: give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein" [syn: inject, shoot]
  • shout
    n 1: a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience" [syn: cry, outcry, call, yell, shout, vociferation] v 1: utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking); "My grandmother is hard of hearing--you'll have to shout" [ant: whisper] 2: utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me" [syn: shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo, squall] 3: utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy; "`I won!' he exclaimed"; "`Help!' she cried"; "`I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost" [syn: exclaim, cry, cry out, outcry, call out, shout] 4: use foul or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher" [syn: abuse, clapperclaw, blackguard, shout]
  • snoot
    n 1: a person regarded as arrogant and annoying [syn: snob, prig, snot, snoot] 2: informal terms for the nose [syn: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, snoot, snout, schnozzle, schnoz]
  • snout
    n 1: a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose [syn: snout, neb] 2: informal terms for the nose [syn: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, snoot, snout, schnozzle, schnoz] 3: beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils [syn: snout, rostrum]
  • spout
    n 1: an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain v 1: gush forth in a sudden stream or jet; "water gushed forth" [syn: spurt, spirt, gush, spout] 2: talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner [syn: rant, mouth off, jabber, spout, rabbit on, rave]
  • sprout
    n 1: any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud 2: a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed) v 1: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" [syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout] 2: put forth and grow sprouts or shoots; "the plant sprouted early this year" [syn: sprout, stock]
  • stout
    adj 1: dependable; "the stalwart citizens at Lexington"; "a stalwart supporter of the UN"; "stout hearts" [syn: stalwart, stout] 2: euphemisms for `fat'; "men are portly and women are stout" [syn: portly, stout] 3: having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young athletes" [syn: hardy, stalwart, stout, sturdy] n 1: a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops 2: a garment size for a large or heavy person
  • suit
    n 1: a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color; "they buried him in his best suit" [syn: suit, suit of clothes] 2: a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the family brought suit against the landlord" [syn: lawsuit, suit, case, cause, causa] 3: (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit; "all the suits care about is the bottom line" 4: a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "its was a brief and intense courtship" [syn: courtship, wooing, courting, suit] 5: a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank 6: playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color; "a flush is five cards in the same suit"; "in bridge you must follow suit"; "what suit is trumps?" v 1: be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs" [syn: suit, accommodate, fit] 2: be agreeable or acceptable; "This time suits me" 3: accord or comport with; "This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!" [syn: befit, suit, beseem] 4: enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This behavior doesn't suit you!" [syn: become, suit]
  • throughout
    adv 1: from first to last; "the play was excellent end-to-end" [syn: throughout, end-to-end] 2: used to refer to cited works [syn: passim, throughout]
  • toot
    n 1: a blast of a horn 2: revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party [syn: carouse, carousal, bender, toot, booze-up] v 1: make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared" [syn: honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot]
  • tout
    n 1: someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit [syn: tout, ticket tout] 2: someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way [syn: tout, touter] 3: one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack) [syn: tipster, tout] v 1: advertize in strongly positive terms; "This product was touted as a revolutionary invention" 2: show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade]
  • trout
    n 1: flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes 2: any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons
  • scute
    n 1: large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake
  • shute
    n 1: English writer who settled in Norway after World War II (1899-1960) [syn: Shute, Nevil Shute, Nevil Shute Norway]
  • ute
    n 1: a member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico 2: the Shoshonean language spoken by the Utes
  • paiute
    n 1: a member of either of two Shoshonean peoples (northern Paiute and southern Paiute) related to the Aztecs and living in the southwestern United States [syn: Paiute, Piute] 2: the Shoshonean language spoken by the Paiute
  • time-out
    n 1: a brief suspension of play; "each team has two time-outs left"
  • nowt
  • without
  • crout
  • doutt
  • fout
  • hout
  • prout
  • strout
  • coote
  • sloot
  • thereout

See also knout definition