cutty
Americanadjective
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cut short; short; stubby.
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irritable; impatient; short-tempered.
noun
plural
cutties-
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
Etymology
Origin of cutty
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
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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.
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