Home › Words › K › knouterknouterknouter means one who wields a knout, especially a Russian official who uses it to administer punishment.EtymologyFrom knout + -er.nounOne who wields a knout, especially a Russian official who uses it to administer punishment.e.g.“Czar — "Have you fastened the alarm telling of the approach of strangers thirty miles away on each door?" Attendant — " Yes, blessed knouter.” — 1890, The Judge - Volume 18, page 334:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.knout 76% match — A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia. vs knouter →untrusser 57% match — Someone who untrussed persons for the purpose of flogging them; a public whipper. vs knouter →whipcracker 57% match — One who cracks a whip. vs knouter →horsewhipper 56% match — One who horsewhips. vs knouter →clouter 56% match — One who clouts or strikes. vs knouter →kneader 55% match — One who kneads. vs knouter →knapper 55% match — One who knaps. vs knouter →trouncer 55% match — One who trounces. vs knouter →