English

Verb

throwed

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

     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 ****-Fer-Sartin

     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’

     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

     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.
   • 1852-3, Charles Dickens, Bleak House

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

   • 1885, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

     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

     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’

     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

     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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