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cutty

American  
[kuht-ee] / ˈkʌt i /

adjective

  1. cut short; short; stubby.

  2. irritable; impatient; short-tempered.


noun

plural

cutties
  1. a short spoon.

  2. a short-stemmed tobacco pipe.

  3. Informal. an immoral or worthless woman.

cutty British  
/ 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

Etymology

Origin of cutty

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

Example Sentences

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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

Then John with his legs in a sack and a fearnought jacket round him, snored in the cutty, whilst Tony nodded sleepily outside.

From A Poor Man's House by Reynolds, Stephen Sydney

The thinker smokes in the intervals of work, impatient of ennui as well as of lassitude, and the ploughman, the digger, the blacksmith or the teamster, lights his cutty for the same reason.

From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.