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cutty

American  

[kuht-ee] / ˈkʌt i /

adjective

1. cut short; short; stubby.

2. irritable; impatient; short-tempered.

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noun

cutties plural

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

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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

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cutties
  plural

Etymology

Origin of cutty

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

Example Sentences

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 he filled his cutty with tobacco, lighted it, and sat down again, this time with an elbow resting on one arm of the chair and smoking.

From Magnhild Dust by Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne

Also, presently, the black cutty fell, or, rather, slipped down into Sammy Durgan's lap—without disturbing Sammy Durgan.

From The Night Operator by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)