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growed verb Past tense and past participle of grow. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]

1863 Lister CW Letters (Nov 10) I Cold sell ever apple that grode on That tree at home for 25 sents a peas if I had Them hear. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 284 In many cases a weak preterite supplants the proper strong one: ... drawed, growed, knowed, throwed. 1953 Atwood Verbs East US 15 Growed occurs in Type I speech [i.e. older speakers having little formal education] with a frequency varying from about one third (e. N.Y. and N.J.) to well over nine tenths (N.C.). 1973 GSMNP-76:28 We growed wheat way up to the hiking club. 1991 Thomas Sthn Appal 242 I always loved to work jist as hard as I could. I’d growed up that way, an’ I loved it.