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growed

  1. (nonstandard) simple past and past participle of grow
    • 1816, Richard Polwhele, The History of Cornwall[1]:
      As he growed in might and strength.
    • 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield:
      Growed, Mas'r Davy bor'? Ain't he growedǃ said Ham.
    • 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:
      I s'pect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.
    • 1895, Francis Hopkinson Smith, A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others[2]:
      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.
    • 1976, Preston Jones, The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia:
      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.
    • 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.
    • 2011, Rugrats, All Growed Up (name of an episode of the show)
    • 2015?, Gucci Mane (Radric Delantic Davis), Hot Stuff (song)
      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.

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