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  • verb Geordie To know

Etymologies

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From Old English cnawan.

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Examples

  • Stripped of the finger-wagging socialist sermonizing that spoils the last 10 minutes of the play, "The Pitmen Painters" is a "Full Monty" - type commercial comedy about five working-class blokes with inch-thick accents ( "We just want to knaa aboot proper art") who turn out to be smarter, nobler and more talented than Robert Lyon (Ian Kelly), the well-meaning but unconsciously patronizing university man who deigns to introduce them to the joys of painting.

    They Can't Dance (So Don't Ask) Terry Teachout 2010

  • So noo ye knaa hoo aall the folks On byeth sides of the Wear Lost lots o' sheep an' lots o' sleep An' lived in mortal feor.

    The Lambton Worm Song 2009

  • Noo lads, Aa'll haad me gob, That's aall Aa knaa aboot the story Of Sir John's clivvor job Wi' the aaful Lambton Worm!

    The Lambton Worm Song 2009

  • Noo lads, Aa'll haad me gob, That's aall Aa knaa aboot the story Of Sir John's clivvor job Wi' the aaful Lambton Worm!

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • So noo ye knaa hoo aall the folks On byeth sides of the Wear Lost lots o' sheep an' lots o' sleep An' lived in mortal feor.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • Cho: But never mind, the lass she's kind, I knaa she is good hearted,

    Sally Gee 2000

  • How long it is since she washed herself well I'm sure I divvent knaa.

    Sally Gee 2000

  • I says to her well I know your face but a divvent knaa from where.

    Sally Gee 2000

  • Ye knaa the lad she gans wi ', they caall him Jimmy Green,

    Keep Yor Feet Still Geordie Hinney 1996

  • Wor lass is driving iz crackers. 'ye knaa what ah mean leik.

    dovegreyreader scribbles 2008

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