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Origin:
before 1000; late Middle English codel, Old English cudele (replaced in the 16th century by cuttlefish and subsequently reshortened)
before 1000; late Middle English codel, Old English cudele (replaced in the 16th century by cuttlefish and subsequently reshortened)
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Cuttle
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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| cuttle (ˈkʌtəl) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | cuttlefish short for cuttlebone |
| 2. | little cuttle a small cuttlefish, Sepiola atlantica, often found on beaches |
| [Old English cudele; related to Old High German kiot bag, Norwegian dialect kaule cuttle, Old English codd bag] | |
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