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throwed en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /θɹoʊd/ (General-American)
  • /θɹəʊd/ (UK)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

Regularized form of threw and thrown.

Meanings

  1. (dialectal, form-of, nonstandard, past) simple past of throw; threw.
    form of throw
    • 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!
    • The Devil looked around and he picked the next biggest one he could find and he throwed it over the fence. 1988, Leonard W Roberts, South from Hell-Fer-Sartin:
    • 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. 1885, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
    • 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.
  2. (dialectal, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past) past participle of throw; thrown.
    form of throw
    • 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!
    • If they want a light-weight, to be throwed for practice, Cornwall, Devonshire, or Lancashire, let ’em throw me. 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
    • 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. 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
    • The Blocker was a versatile loop. It could be throwed from hossback or afoot, and could be used for a head ketch, heelin’, or forefootin’. 1989, Ramon F Adams, The Old-Time Cowhand:
    • They had one motel in that town, and friends of ours owned it, but we got throwed out of it before it got dark after they got to fighting. 2004, Peter Golenbock, Nascar Confidential: