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growed en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, nonstandard, participle, past) simple past and past participle of grow
    form of grow
    • 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.
    • 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. 1895, Francis Hopkinson Smith, A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others:
    • As he growed in might and strength. 1816, Richard Polwhele, The History of Cornwall:
    • 2011, “All Growed Up”, Rugrats (name of an episode of the show)
    • 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. 2015?, Gucci Mane (Radric Delantic Davis), Hot Stuff (song)
    • Us was goody goody garden workers… us growed pretty floweries for our fairy. 2023, Vivian French, “An Enchanted Garden”, in Bibi and the Box of Fairy Tales, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
    • Growed, Mas'r Davy bor'? Ain't he growedǃ said Ham. 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield:
    • I s'pect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me. 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
    • 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. 1976, Preston Jones, The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia: