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cutty

[ kuht-ee ]

adjective

  1. cut short; short; stubby.
  2. irritable; impatient; short-tempered.


noun

, plural cut·ties.
  1. a short spoon.
  2. a short-stemmed tobacco pipe.
  3. Informal. an immoral or worthless woman.

cutty

/ ˈkʌtɪ /

adjective

  1. short or cut short
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. something cut short, such as a spoon or short-stemmed tobacco pipe
  2. an immoral girl or woman (in Scotland used as a general term of abuse for a woman)
  3. a short thickset girl
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cutty1

First recorded in 1650–60; cut + -y 1, -y 2
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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

Things between Cutty and Ruth get serious, and Simone and Dina must reconnect.

The show, he wrote in a CNN.com article, “is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters -- with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes -- is glamorous and ‘vintage.’”

Built around a sample of the dancehall great Cutty Ranks’ “Limb by Limb,” Jamie minces his source material into barely discernible syllables and launches it into hyperspace, leaving its component parts to ping off one another with a bouncy, exuberant energy.

August Kleinzahler is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a memoir, “Cutty, One Rock.”

And then he hit a shot his caddie described as a “low, cutty, spinny gap wedge” to 18 feet and made the putt.

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