cutty

comparative more cutty · superlative most cutty · alternative cuttie

1. Northern EnglandScotlandShort, shortened, or small; curtailed.
2. Having many cuts.
3. Sharp, cutting easily.

plural cutties · alternative cuttie

1. ScotlandA short spoon.
2. ScotlandA short tobacco pipe; a cutty-pipe.

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

   1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 11

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   I'm no sae scant of clean pipes as to blaw wi' a brunt cutty.

   1750, Allan Ramsay, A Collection of Scots Proverbs, page 51

3. ScotlandarchaicA wanton or unchaste woman.

   “And me coming a this way out o' my gate to pleasure you, ye ungrateful cutty,”

   1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC

4. ScotlandarchaicA girl with a short, dumpy figure.
5. Northern IrelandUlsterA girl or young woman.

   A man who reared ten cubs and three cutties.

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

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   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.

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