throwed
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /θɹəʊd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /θɹoʊd/
- Rhymes: -əʊd
Verb
throwed
- (nonstandard, dialectal) simple past tense of throw; threw.
- 1885, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
- I come a booming down on a cut bank with smoky ghosts of big trees on it, and the current throwed me off to the left and shot by, amongst a lot of snags that fairly roared, the current was tearing by them so swift.
- 1991, Ben K Green, Some More Horse Tradin’
- I’d lost my hat, tore my fingernails off on the saddle horn, and was damn near throwed when he lost his breath and throwed his head up and stopped!
- 2003, Mark Harris, The Southpaw
- I throwed slow and easy, and I felt in my mind like the sight of Pop out there on that same pitching hill.
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- (nonstandard, dialectal) past participle of throw; thrown.
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, OCLC 999756093:
- If they want a light-weight, to be throwed for practice, Cornwall, Devonshire, or Lancashire, let ’em throw me.
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182:
- I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn’t a done it no neater himself. Of course he would a throwed more style into it, but I can’t do that very handy, not being brung up to it.
- 1991, Ben K Green, Some More Horse Tradin’
- I’d lost my hat, tore my fingernails off on the saddle horn, and was damn near throwed when he lost his breath and throwed his head up and stopped!
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