Cutty

/ˈkʌti/ · adjective

Meaning

(Scotland, Northern England) Short, shortened, or small; curtailed..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Short, shortened, or small; curtailed.
2. (of audio or video) Having many cuts.
3. Sharp, cutting easily.
4. (Scotland) A short spoon.
5. (Scotland) A short tobacco pipe; a cutty-pipe.
6. (Scotland, archaic) A wanton or unchaste woman.
7. (Scotland, archaic) A girl with a short, dumpy figure.
8. (Northern Ireland, Ulster) A girl or young woman.

Example Sentences

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

"Why, it's a cutty — an Irish cutty!" shouted Cripps.

“And me coming a this way out o' my gate to pleasure you, ye ungrateful cutty,”

A man who reared ten cubs and three cutties.

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.

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• more cutty
• most cutty
• cuttie
• cutties

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