growed
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -əʊd
Verb[edit]
growed
- (nonstandard) simple past and past participle of grow
- 1816, Richard Polwhele, The History of Cornwall[1]:
- As he growed in might and strength.
- 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield:
- Growed, Mas'r Davy bor'? Ain't he growedǃ said Ham.
- 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
- I s'pect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.
- 1895, Francis Hopkinson Smith, A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others[2]:
- See how praoud an' tall he's growed, with them arms of his'n straight aout an' them leetle chillen of his'n spraouting up raound him.
- 1976, Preston Jones, The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia:
- Well, sir, the idea growed and growed and by the late 1920's there was Knights of the White Magnolia lodges all over Texas and parts of Oklahoma.
- November 27, 2007, House M.D. Season 4 Episode 9, Games, 36 minutes and 39 seconds in on a Blu-Ray disk.
- He thinks he's gonna be great once he's all growed up.
- 2011, Rugrats, All Growed Up (name of an episode of the show)
- 2015?, Gucci Mane (Radric Delantic Davis), Hot Stuff (song)
- Baby come and get it, cos you know I've got that hot stuff / baby come and get it cause you know that I growed up.