cutty

American  

[kuht-ee] / ˈkʌt i /

adjective

1. cut short; short; stubby.

2. irritable; impatient; short-tempered.

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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

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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

Etymology

Origin of cutty

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

Example Sentences

“Even at the beginning of this year, it was still a little cutty.”

From Los Angeles Times

He founded his own label, Roaring Lion, which released records by top acts such as Buju Banton, Cutty Ranks and Sizzla, and paid tribute to America’s first Black president with a 2008 single “Barack Obama.”

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Washington Post

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.’”

From Washington Post

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.

From New York Times