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cutty, a. and n.|ˈkʌtɪ|
[f. cut v.]
A. adj.
1. Cut short, curtailed, so abnormally short as to appear to have been cut, esp. in certain connexions, as cutty knife, cutty pipe (humorously cutty gun), cutty spoon, cutty sark, etc. (in which the two words are often unnecessarily hyphened). Sc. and north. dial.
17..Old Song, Andro, etc. (Jam.), But wha cam in to heese our hope, But Andro, wi' his cutty-gun? 1790Burns Tam O'Shanter 171 Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn..In longitude tho' sorely scanty. 1810Cromek Rem. Nithsdale Song 208 (Jam.) He gae to me a cuttie knife, And bade me keep it as my life. 1816Scott Old Mort. Introd., The man of cutty-spoon and ladle saw his trade interrupted. 1855Thackeray Newcomes xxiii, Allowed to use his cutty-pipe. 1878Cumbrld. Gloss., Cutty, short.
†2. In Engraving (see quot.). Obs.
1660Albert Durer Revived 5 Let nothing be done hard, sharp, or cutty.
3. ‘Testy, hasty, short of temper’ (Jamieson). Sc.
4. Comb. cutty-brown, a dock-tailed brown horse; cutty-stoup, ‘a pewter vessel holding the eighth part of a chopin or quart’ (Jamieson).
a1776in Herd Songs (1776) II 220 (Jam.), I scoured awa to Edinborow-town, And my cutty-brown together. 17..Song (Jam.), The cuttie-stoup bit hauds a soup, Gae fetch the Hawick gill, O.
5. Capable of cutting, sharp. spec. (N.Z.) cutty grass (also cuttigrass) = cutting grass 1.
1903Kipling in Windsor Mag. Sept. 364/1 We'll draw fine, freehand, tribal patterns on their backs with the cutty edges of mussel-shells. 1910L. Cockayne N.Z. Plants vii. 109 Here is also the home of the sedge family, to which the so-called ‘cutty-grasses’ belong. 1920J. Mander Story of N.Z. River ii. 29 Among the rushes and cuttigrass. 1927W. H. Guthrie-Smith Birds of Water, Wood & Waste (ed. 2) 162 The nest is planted deep..in the heart of a bunch of cutty grass. 1957Landfall XI. 213 The cutty grass sawed at her dress.
B. n.
1. a. Short for cutty spoon. (Sc.)
17..Earl Lithgow xlix. in Child Ballads iv. (1886) 470/1 Bring to me my horn cutties, That I was best used wi. 1768Ross Helenore 116 (Jam.) The green-horn cutties rattling in her lap. 1776in Ramsay Sc. Prov. 44 (Jam.) It is better to sup with a cutty than want a spoon.
b. Short for cutty pipe.
1776in Ramsay Sc. Prov. Wks. 1818. III. 185 I'm nae sae scant o'clean pipes as to blaw wi' a brunt cutty. 1859Macm. Mag. Nov. 74 Either as long clay or as cutty. 1888M. Robertson Lombard St. Myst. xv, Knocking the ashes of his cutty on the floor.
2. a. ‘A short stump of a girl. Dumfriesshire’ (Jamieson). b. A term of reprobation for a testy, or naughty girl or woman; but often used playfully.
1816Scott Old Mort. x, He's gaun to be merried to Meg Murdieson, ill-faur'd cuttie as she is. 1830Galt Lawrie T. vii. xi. (1849) 351 The cutty of a servant lass said..with a smile that Miss Beeny was at home. 1891Barrie Lit. Minister I. viii. 131 To gie her her due, she's cracky, and as for her being a cuttie, you've said so yoursel.
3. A familiar local appellation of some animals:
a. The wren; also cutty-quean, cutty-wren.
b. The Black Guillemot (Uria Grylle).
c. The hare.
a1776in Herd Sc. Songs (1776) II. 167 (Jam.) Go, pack ye out at my chamber door, Ye little cutty-quean. a1808Fleming Tour in Arran (Jam.), On the passage I observed several Black Guillemots..which the boatmen called cutties. 1819Edin. Mag. July 507 (Jam.) Common Hare.—Maukin, Cuttie. 1875Parish Sussex Gloss., Cutty, a wren; also called a kitty. 1883Hampsh. Gloss., Cuttran, Cutty, a wren. Cutty is the commoner term. |