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curt

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Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
8
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/kɝt/
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/kɝt/ · /kɜːt/

Definition of curt

5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
    “Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. [...] Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it […]”
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adj

  1. Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
    “Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. [...] Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it […]”
  2. Short or concise.

verb

  1. (obsolete, rare)To cut, cut short, shorten.
    “Curting thy life, hee takes thy Card away.”

name

  1. A short form of the male given name Curtis
  2. A male given name from the Germanic languages, an anglicized spelling of Kurt

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From the Latin curtus (“shortened”). Cognate with Dutch kort, German kurz, Galician curto, French court, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short.

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