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cutty
[ kuht-ee ]
adjective
- cut short; short; stubby.
- irritable; impatient; short-tempered.
noun
, plural cut·ties.
- a short spoon.
- a short-stemmed tobacco pipe.
- Informal. an immoral or worthless woman.
cutty
/ ˈkʌtɪ /
adjective
- short or cut short
noun
- something cut short, such as a spoon or short-stemmed tobacco pipe
- an immoral girl or woman (in Scotland used as a general term of abuse for a woman)
- a short thickset girl
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cutty1
C18 (Scottish and northern English): from cut (vb)
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Example Sentences
Why, thought Michael, should not he himself be one day ranked as the peer of Cutty Jackson?
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Soon after he stopped on Cutty-hunk Island, near the coast, where he built a house.
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He filled his cutty and walked to and fro in the moonlight, with his head bent and his hands clasped behind his back.
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Auld Jock smoked his cutty pipe, gazed at the fire or into the kirk-yard, and meditated on nothing in particular.
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Mr. Brown locked the gate, went sulkily into the lodge, lighted his cutty pipe, and smoked it furiously.
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