cutty
Americanadjective
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cut short; short; stubby.
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irritable; impatient; short-tempered.
noun
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cutties
plural
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a short spoon.
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a short-stemmed tobacco pipe.
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Informal. an immoral or worthless woman.
adjective
noun
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something cut short, such as a spoon or short-stemmed tobacco pipe
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an immoral girl or woman (in Scotland used as a general term of abuse for a woman)
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a short thickset girl
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Origin of cutty
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And then he hit a shot his caddie described as a “low, cutty, spinny gap wedge” to 18 feet and made the putt.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2022
Your camera is really active in the fight sequences, but the sequences aren’t super cutty; it’s all very choreographed.
From The Verge ● Apr. 3, 2015
Jenny Geddes threw that "cutty stool" towards the head of my distant, illustrious relative, Dean James Hanna, who was reading the Collect for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sammy Durgan composed himself against the rock wall, and produced his black cutty.
From The Night Operator by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
The cutty wren is a Pembrokeshire Twelfth Night custom prevailing commonly during the last century, but now nearly extinct.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
Named for the delicate streaks of red along its gills, the cutties ran a little bigger than the brook trout and were a tad tougher to catch.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2015
Once up and riding, the board had no boogie board like flex, and responded well to my 165lb power torque cutties.
From Time Magazine Archive
The truth is, that, unlike cutties and meerschaums, and other clay and earthen pipes, these briar-root productions are very strong, and will bear a great deal of knocking about.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
Both cutties and churchwardens were smoked, but the latter of course were not adapted for persons engaged in active pursuits and were essentially of what I may call a sedentary nature.
From The Social History of Smoking by George Latimer Apperson
Sundry experienced and fat old women were standing or sitting at their cottage doors, one or two smoking cutties.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
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