cutty

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
11
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈkʌti/

Definition of cutty

8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

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

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

noun

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

From cut + -y.

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