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cutty en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkʌti/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From cut + -y.

Meanings

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland) Short, shortened, or small; curtailed.
  2. (of audio or video) Having many cuts.
  3. Sharp, cutting easily.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more cutty Degree=Cmp lexicographic
cuttie alternative lexicographic
most cutty Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

cuttystool · cutty grass · fatty cutty · cuttymum · cutty-brown · cutty-pipe · cutty-gun · cutty-stoup · cutty-quean · cutty-hare

cutty en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkʌti/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From cut + -y.

Meanings

  1. (Scotland) A short spoon.
  2. (Scotland) A short tobacco pipe; a cutty-pipe.
    • I'm no sae scant of clean pipes as to blaw wi' a brunt cutty. 1750, Allan Ramsay, A Collection of Scots Proverbs, page 51:
    • "Why, it's a cutty — an Irish cutty!" shouted Cripps. 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 11:
  3. (Scotland, archaic) A wanton or unchaste woman.
    • “And me coming a this way out o' my gate to pleasure you, ye ungrateful cutty,” 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
  4. (Scotland, archaic) A girl with a short, dumpy figure.
  5. (Northern-Ireland, Ulster) A girl or young woman.
    • A man who reared ten cubs and three cutties. 1993, Ray Givans, No Surrender, Castlecaulfield, Lapwing Publications, →ISBN, page 14:
    • The point of the example is educational, moral, and the moral qualities of the stories attracted Peter Flanagan who remembered them from childhood and told them to the cutties and cubs when he was, for them, a funny old man. 2016 September 12, Henry Glassie, The Stars of Ballymenone, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 229:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
cuttie alternative lexicographic
cutties Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

cub

Relateds

cutty grass