thoued
- 1Simple past and past participle of thou.
In the trial scene, the prosecutor thoued the prisoner to make his contempt plain to the jury.
Having thoued his neighbors all his life, the farmer saw no reason to speak differently to the new landlord.
Note
The verb is made from the pronoun itself: to thou someone was to address them as thou rather than you, a choice that signaled either contempt or familiarity. The one spelling covers the simple past (he thoued his rival across the table) and the participle (she had never been thoued in her life). Without an object it means only that someone used the word thou.
thoued is a form of thou
thou, verb: To speak to someone using thou instead of you, especially to show contempt or familiarity; also, simply to use the word thou. Full entry
- Spelling
- thou → thoued: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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