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you know
a. you know.
(a) Used parenthetically, usually following the main statement (frequently with emphatic, persuasive, or reproving intent): as you know (or may like to or should know) is the case. Similarly (now archaic and rare) thou knowest.
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a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1174 He is my lege man lelly þou knowes.
1565 T. Stapleton Disc. Doctr. Protestants in tr. F. Staphylus Apol. f. 165v The whole corps off scripture was not, you know, at one push approued.
1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. Aa4v Yet Time (you know) is Edax rerum.
1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss iii. sig. Gv W. p... White quickly soyles you know. B. p... Get thee gone, Then I shall smut thee.
1698 J. Kirkwood Plea before Kirk 102 The stranger, a Northlin, not so strait lac'd, you know, as we in the South, slipt into the meeting-house to hear the Curate preach.
1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) V. xxxvi. 318 For Women to Women, thou knowest, are great darers and incentives.
1775 J. Wesley Let. 3 Nov. (1931) VI. 187 I hear nothing from Cornwell; and no news, you know, is good news.
1800 M. Edgeworth Waste Not in Parent's Assistant (ed. 3) V. 136 Lady Diana Sweepstakes, you know, is a famous rider, and archer.
1835 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz (1836) 1st Ser. II. 39 What's the matter, sir? Never say die, you know.
1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus i. 7 Ought I to have cried both my eyes out? You haven't cried out either of yours, you know.
1901 W. F. Fleming tr. Voltaire Orestes iii. iv, in Wks. XVII. 111 The wretched wanderer, thou knowest, was doomed To hate a mother.
1926 G. Hunting Vicarion iv. 63 This represents some years of study, you know, this little exhibition I have given you.
1959 P. O'Brian Unknown Shore x. 190 You are very much beslobbered, you know, Toby.
2000 A. Maupin Night Listener (2001) xvii. 215 This isn't some Hardy Boys mystery, you know. We're talking about a sick kid who could be dead in a month.
(b) Following a question: do you know? Obsolete.
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1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 475. ¶5 How can he help that, you know?
(c) Used to temporize, while the speaker considers how to continue, or simply as a conversational filler. Cf. you know what I mean at mean v.1 6d.
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1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 307/1 We'd be as wise as the dead was, you know, when he sung as they carried him to church.
1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 726/1 If this wind were to—ah—you know, heave more abaft, that's to say, get stronger.
1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 14/1 ‘It's the other men. You see’—he began to stammer—‘they know about you and they've begun to kick. They won't work alongside a feller that's been—er—you know—why, in trouble.’
1937 J. Weidman I can get it for you Wholesale xx. 197 You could run the office, and keep your eye on things in general.., and sort of, well, you know, sort of superintend the whole works.
1955 Carolina Q. Fall 57 I told him all about his quiet spells, and how he never let himself show any—uh—well, you know, emotion about anything.
1968 Listener 16 May 626/2 Too often one hears people on the wireless beginning an elaborate sentence—they flounder about for a bit and then break off with: ‘you know’.
1972 A. Bennett Getting On ii. 41 Andy. George, I have said, you know, nothing. George. That's ‘you know’ right. You have said ‘you know’ bugger all.
2003 R. Liddle Too Beautiful for You (2004) 193 Later I'm..consoling Saul and Dipak because the Animal Liberation Front has firebombed Sheepscape on account of the, you know, sheep.
(d) Used, esp. preceding the main statement, to indicate that the speaker expects that the general nature of what is being referred to will be known or understood (and frequently also to stimulate agreement or acquiescence).
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1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xvii. 170 I'll talk to her—break it to her gently, you know, and that sort of thing.
1906 Catholic World Apr. 37 ‘A celibate? What's that?’ ‘Oh, you know. A sort of obstinate bachelor.’
1943 A. Rand Fountainhead iii. v. 491 We'll put Dominique back on the paper and we'll have her write a column..on the home. You know, household hints, kitchen, babies and all that.
1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer xiv. 235 The other kind was the muscle men. You know, right off the farm where they were lifting tractors with one hand.
1983 N.Y. Times Mag. 28 Aug. 16/2 A sultry summer Sunday is a time for people to drive somewhere with the kids and when they arrive to buy them a pop. A what? You know, a pop—short for Popsicle—ice on a stick.
2006 A. McCall Smith Right Attitude to Rain v. 55 The hundred-year eggs that the Chinese eat. You know, the eggs they bury for a hundred days and then dig up and eat.
(e) Chiefly euphemistic. Used in place of something the speaker is unable or does not care to specify.
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1900 ‘S. Grand’ Babs xliii. 410 ‘It's a poor heart that never—you know,’ he observed.
1911 D. H. Lawrence White Peacock ii. i. 219 It's the way she swings her body—an' the curves as she stands. It's when you look at her—you feel—you know.
1964 in R. D. Abrahams Deep down in Jungle ii. v. 203 I was sitting around this girl's house, friend of mine's wife, and I was going to give her a little bit, you know.
1986 N. Freeling Cold Iron vi. 66 Even if I'm in the you-know [i.e. lavatory], there's the buzzer.
2006 Independent (Nexis) 17 Jan. 33 A body part. You know. OK, a vinkle.
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