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cutty
[ kuht-ee ]
adjective
- cut short; short; stubby.
- irritable; impatient; short-tempered.
noun
- 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
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Example Sentences
Why, thought Michael, should not he himself be one day ranked as the peer of Cutty Jackson?
Soon after he stopped on Cutty-hunk Island, near the coast, where he built a house.
He filled his cutty and walked to and fro in the moonlight, with his head bent and his hands clasped behind his back.
Auld Jock smoked his cutty pipe, gazed at the fire or into the kirk-yard, and meditated on nothing in particular.
Mr. Brown locked the gate, went sulkily into the lodge, lighted his cutty pipe, and smoked it furiously.
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