Meaning

5 senses

  1. (Scotland)A short spoon.

  2. (Scotland)A short tobacco pipe; a cutty-pipe.

  3. (Northern Ireland, Ulster)A girl or young woman.

  4. (Scotland, archaic)A wanton or unchaste woman.

  5. (Scotland, archaic)A girl with a short, dumpy figure.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Black cutty pipes are decidedly in bad form.

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Origin

From cut + -y.

From cut + -y.

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Forms

plural: cutties
Singularcutty
Pluralcutties

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedcutty grass

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cutthroatcuttingcuttlefishcyancyanide

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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