cutty

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cutty

  • /ˈkʌti/

Rhymes with -ʌti

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From cut + -y.

adjective more cutty · most cutty · cuttie

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

noun cutties · cuttie

  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.
  3. Scotland, archaic A wanton or unchaste woman. “And me coming a this way out o' my gate to pleasure you, ye ungrateful cutty,”
  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.

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