throwed

English

Etymology

Regularized form of threw and thrown.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /θɹəʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /θɹoʊd/

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• Rhymes: -əʊd

Verb

throwed

1. (nonstandard, dialectal) simple past of throw; threw.
   • 1885, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 1988, Leonard W Roberts, South from Hell-Fer-Sartin‎^[2]:

     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’ [3]

     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 [4]

     I throwed slow and easy, and I felt in my mind like the sight of Pop out there on that same pitching hill.

2. (nonstandard, dialectal) past participle of throw; thrown.
   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

     If they want a light-weight, to be throwed for practice, Cornwall, Devonshire, or Lancashire, let ’em throw me.

   • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →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.

   • 1989, Ramon F Adams, The Old-Time Cowhand‎^[5]:

     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’.

   • 1991, Ben K Green, Some More Horse Tradin’ [6]

     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!

   • 2004, Peter Golenbock, Nascar Confidential‎^[7]:

     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.

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