cutty
cut short; short; stubby.
irritable; impatient; short-tempered.
a short spoon.
a short-stemmed tobacco pipe.
Informal. an immoral or worthless woman.
Origin of cutty
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How to use cutty in a sentence
Why, thought Michael, should not he himself be one day ranked as the peer of cutty Jackson?
Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton MackenzieSoon after he stopped on cutty-hunk Island, near the coast, where he built a house.
The Story of the Thirteen Colonies | H. A. (Hlne Adeline) GuerberHe filled his cutty and walked to and fro in the moonlight, with his head bent and his hands clasped behind his back.
The Adventures of Kathlyn | Harold MacGrathAuld Jock smoked his cutty pipe, gazed at the fire or into the kirk-yard, and meditated on nothing in particular.
Greyfriars Bobby | Eleanor AtkinsonMr. Brown locked the gate, went sulkily into the lodge, lighted his cutty pipe, and smoked it furiously.
Greyfriars Bobby | Eleanor Atkinson
British Dictionary definitions for cutty
/ (ˈkʌtɪ) Scot and Northern English dialect /
short or cut short
something cut short, such as a spoon or short-stemmed tobacco pipe
an immoral girl or woman (in Scotland used as a general term of abuse for a woman)
a short thickset girl
Origin of cutty
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