knut

plural knuts

1. archaicinformalAn idle upper-class man about town.

   Oh Hades! the Ladies who leave their wooden huts, For Gilbert the Filbert, the colonel of the knuts...

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   But they were pleasant people, as a matter of fact, the Local Knuts, I gathered, who owned the Manor House; Sir William Prowse and his lady and his daughter.

   1928, H. Russell Wakefield, “The Red Lodge”, in They Return at Evening

   Synonyms: playboy, hedonist

1. alternativeAlternative form of Cnut (“historical name”).