throwed
/θɹoʊd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past of throw; threw.
verb
past participle of throw; thrown.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The Devil looked around and he picked the next biggest one he could find and he throwed it over the fence."
- "1991, Ben K Green, Some More Horse Tradin’ http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0803270925&id=IkYA69A0Me0C&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&sig=qMZfjtlvPlVLAVpmCe6OsQkXkuw 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 http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0803273371&id=ZcXrSFki8LYC&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&sig=luXWpLfgFo79Qyrz6QZ0yzyqrrU I throwed slow and easy, and I felt in my mind like the sight of Pop out there on that same pitching hill."
- "If they want a light-weight, to be throwed for practice, Cornwall, Devonshire, or Lancashire, let ’em throw me."
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /θɹoʊd/
- British English: /θɹəʊd/