cuttle
cuttle · cuttles
Synonym of cuttlefishSynonym of cuttlefish.
/ˈkʌtəl/
Meaning
3 sensesSynonym of cuttlefish.
(obsolete)A knife.
(obsolete)A foul-mouthed fellow.
More definitions
- ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell
Origin
From Middle English cutil, codel, codul, from Old English cudele (“cuttlefish”), a diminutFrom Middle English cutil, codel, codul, from Old English cudele (“cuttlefish”), a diminutive from Proto-Germanic *kudulǭ, from Proto-Germanic *kuddô + -ulǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”). Equivalent to cod + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare dialectal German Kudele (“cuttlefish”), Norwegian kaule (“cuttlefish”).
From Middle English coutel, from Old French coutel, coltel, cultel, from Latin cultellus. Doublet of couteau. See cutlass.
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Forms
plural: cuttlesSynonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell:cuttlefish
Word family
1 related wordsDerivedcuttlebone