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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Cut short; short: as, a cutty spoon.
  2. Testy; hasty.
  3. n. cutties (-iz). 1. A short spoon.
  4. n. A short-stemmed tobacco-pipe.
  5. n. A popgun. Also called cutty-gun.
  6. n. The common hare, Lepus timidus.
  7. n. A short, thick-set girl.
  8. n. A slut; a worthless girl or woman; a wanton. Also cutty-quean.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Short, shortened, or small; curtailed.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Short.
  2. n. A short spoon.
  3. n. A short tobacco pipe.
  4. n. A light or unchaste woman.

Examples

  • “This was performed by the guilty person standing up before the congregation on a raised platform, called the cutty stool, and receiving a rebuke.”

    Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character

  • “Shifty eyes' now produced a 'cutty' and suggested a smoke, which Sandie and I were thinking was the one thing left to complete our satisfaction.”

    Border Ghost Stories

  • “The good woman slowly produced a well-seasoned "cutty" pipe, and as she began to cut up a "fill" from a rank-smelling tobacco, replied: "Na, na, laddie, I've come in here for a smoke ma'sel.”

    The Social History of Smoking

  • “Not satisfied with the ordinary "cutty" of the whites, they inhale it in volumes through a bamboo cane.”

    Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland

  • “He seems to have smoked nothing more splendid than clay pipes, and 'as in his wanderings these behoved to break, he used to take quills, and putting one into the other and all into the end of the "cutty," this served to make it long enough, and the tobacco to smoke cool.”

    The True Story Book

  • “Disco, pushing a fine straw down the stem of his "cutty," to make it draw better.”

    Black Ivory

  • “Is 'cutty' the disreputable word? for I think I 've passed that rank already; it sounds quite familiar. ”

    Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers

  • “I'll take a wild 20 inch cutty over that pig pond rainbow anyday.”

    Hatchery Fish: The Weakest Link

  • “Hell - give me a 12 inch native cutty or whatever might swim in my geographical location natively rather than planted trout.”

    Hatchery Fish: The Weakest Link

  • “As for your repeated assertion that Denton's view is incompatible with ID, you're pretty cutty with your quotes, Oleg.”

    Blast From the Past

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