cutty

[ kuht-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, plural cut·ties.

cutty

/ ˈkʌtɪ /

something cut short, such as a spoon or short-stemmed tobacco pipe
an immoral girl or woman (in Scotland used as a general term of abuse for a woman)
a short thickset girl

Origin of cutty¹

First recorded in 1650–60; cut + -y ¹, -y ²

Origin of cutty¹

C18 (Scottish and northern English): from cut (vb)

Why, thought Michael, should not he himself be one day ranked as the peer of Cutty Jackson?

Soon after he stopped on Cutty-hunk Island, near the coast, where he built a house.

He filled his cutty and walked to and fro in the moonlight, with his head bent and his hands clasped behind his back.

Auld Jock smoked his cutty pipe, gazed at the fire or into the kirk-yard, and meditated on nothing in particular.

Mr. Brown locked the gate, went sulkily into the lodge, lighted his cutty pipe, and smoked it furiously.

April 17, 2024axolotl

[ak-suh-lot-l ]

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