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cutty

/ˈkʌti/

cutty adjective: short, shortened, or small; curtailed.

Adjective

cutty (comparative more cutty, superlative most cutty)

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

Noun

cutty (plural cutties)

  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...
  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 of cutty

Adjective
comparativemore cutty
superlativemost cutty
alternative formcuttie
Noun
pluralcutties

Origin of cutty

From cut + -y.

Words formed from cutty

Phrases with cutty

Words that rhyme with cutty

Questions about cutty

What does cutty mean?
Cutty means short, shortened, or small; curtailed.
What part of speech is cutty?
Cutty can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce cutty?
Cutty is pronounced /ˈkʌti/.

Words near cutty in the dictionary

  1. cuttoes
  2. cuttos
  3. Cuttries
  4. Cuttry
  5. Cutts
  6. cutty
  7. cutty grass
  8. cutty grasses
  9. cutty-pipe
  10. cutty-pipes
  11. cutty-stool

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