cutty

English

Alternative forms

• cuttie

Etymology

cut +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌti/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Adjective

cutty (comparative more cutty, superlative most cutty)

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

Derived terms

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

 

Noun

cutty (plural cutties)

1. (Scotland) A short spoon.
2. (Scotland) A short tobacco pipe; a cutty-pipe.
   • 1750, Allan Ramsay, A Collection of Scots Proverbs, page 51:

     I'm no sae scant of clean pipes as to blaw wi' a brunt cutty.

3. (Scotland, archaic) A wanton or unchaste woman.
   • 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, III, or IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:

     “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.

See also

• cutty grass

References

• John Jamieson (1825) Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language [1]

Scots

Etymology

From cut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌtɪ/, /ˈkʌti/

Adjective

cutty (comparative mair cutty, superlative maist cutty)

1. short, stumpy

Noun

cutty (plural cutties)

1. (archaic) child