cutty

English

Alternative forms

• cuttie

Etymology

From 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 to 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.
5. (Northern Ireland, Ulster) A girl or young woman.

   Coordinate term: cub

   • 1993, Ray Givans, No Surrender, Castlecaulfield, Lapwing Publications, →ISBN, page 14:

     A man who reared ten cubs and three cutties.

   • 2016 September 12, Henry Glassie, The Stars of Ballymenone, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 229:

     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.

See also

• cutty grass

References

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

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