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

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

"No, of course not; they did not suppose that I saw them either," said he, and began to light his cutty.

From Magnhild Dust by Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne

The cutty wren is a Pembrokeshire Twelfth Night custom prevailing commonly during the last century, but now nearly extinct.

From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt