hurted

English

Verb

hurted

1. (archaic or nonstandard, Ireland) simple past and past participle of hurt
   • 1907, John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World, Western World: Act I, page 6:

     Pegeen: And you never went near to see was he hurted or what ailed him at all?

   • 1915, Charles L Graves, Humours of Irish life, pages 241-242,255:

     Page 241-242: Was anyone hurted? Sure, they were just trailin' theirselves off the ground. Ye wud have died larfin'. There's Jimmy Hanlon was never his own man since, and I had me nose broke on me—I find it yet—and some says there was a wee girl from Tanderagee got herself killed.
     Page 255: Maybe they'd get hurted!" said the boys. "Hurted, how-are-ye!" says Hughie; "How could anyone get hurted so simple as that? I'd be the last in the world to speak of such a thing in that case! But if yous are afraid of doing it..."

   • 2002, “Here I Am”, performed by La Luna:

     Unconscious mind
     love hurted me
     You need to find
     The real girl in me

Usage notes

• From the 15th century to the mid-19th century, hurted was used as a standard alternative to hurt and various other spellings as the simple past tense and past participle of to hurt. From the late 19th century, well-known writers have rarely used it except in jocular fashion or in works for children. It appears commonly in Ireland but is now nonstandard elsewhere.

Anagrams

• dureth