cut-throatn.

Brit.

/ˈkʌtθrəʊt/, U.S.

/ˈkətˌθroʊt/

Forms: Also cutthroat.

Etymology: See cut v. Compounds.

a. One who cuts throats; a ruffian who murders or does deeds of violence; a murderer or assassin by profession.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun]

routerc1300

tyrant1377

ruffy?a1513

ruffiana1525

kempy1525

cut-throat1535

slasher1559

cutter1569

hackster1574

hacker1576

cuttle1600

ruffiano1611

bully rook1673

thug1838

Apache1902

ned1910

rough-up1911

goonda1926

hoon1938

messer1942

the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun] > murderer or assassin

banea800

murthereOE

quellerOE

manslaughta1225

manquellec1275

murderer1340

Cainc1380

drepera1400

sicariana1400

murder mana1450

interfector1450

murdrier1481

murdresara1500

assassin1531

cut-throat1535

cutter1569

baner1605

brave1606

bravo1609

dagger-mana1616

assassinate1621

assassinator1651

sword-taker1660

assassinant1662

banesman1870

hatchet man1876

murdermonger1900

hit-man1970

mechanic1972

contract killer1980

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force > person

cut-throat1535

club-fist1575

violator1583

club-lawyera1670

thug1838

outrager1840

messer1942

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 449 Thir cankerit cut~throttis of crudelitie.

1694 E. Phillips tr. J. Milton Lett. of State 292 Those sanctifi'd Cut-throats.

1793 Ld. Auckland's Corr. III. 109 A corps franc, raised on the frontiers of Hungary..I never saw such a set of desperate cut-throats.

1889 J. A. Froude Two Chiefs Dunboy xxv. 380 I am a soldier, sir, and not a cut-throat.

b. transferred and figurative.

ΚΠ

1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. x. 484 It is the verie tried cutthrote of all amitie, friendshippe, [etc.].

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xxix. 855 There is no greater a cut-throte to dogs then the wild bore.

1878 W. Black Goldsmith xii. 102 A paid libeller and cut-throat of public reputations.

c. Used attributively or elliptically of several games of chance, esp. of a three-handed card game in which one or more players score individually rather than in partnership. Originally U.S.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > other games of chance > [noun]

even or odd1538

love1585

Jack-in-the-box?1593

under-hat1629

pluck-penny1643

morra1659

catch-dolt1674

shuffle-cap1712

fair chance1723

E O1751

teetotum1753

rondo1821

cut-throat1823

hop-my-fool1824

odds and evens1841

spin-'em-round1851

halfpenny under the hat1853

racehorses1853

fan-tan1878

tan1883

pakapoo1886

legality1888

petits chevaux1891

pai gow1906

boule1911

put and take1921

1823 I. Holmes Acct. U.S.A. 353 I have seen at least twenty boys surrounding a billiard table, playing at a sort of game of chance they call cut-throat.

1868 All Year Round 31 Oct. 489/2 It is not uncommon, therefore, to see merchants (especially American) having a social game of ‘cut-throat monte’, ‘eucre’, or ‘poker’, with piles of gold before them.

1870 J. C. Duval Adventures Big-Foot Wallace 247 As soon as I can learn to play poker and cut-throat loo.

1904 E. A. Tennant ABC of Bridge (ed. 4) 100 Cut-Throat Bridge. Though the above is the simplest way of playing three-handed Bridge, Cut-Throat has great attractions for some people.

1907 Hoyle's Games 131 Three-Handed Bridge, Cut-Throat, or Dummy Bridge.

1907 Hoyle's Games 223 Euchre... Cut-Throat, or Three-Hand.

1928 F. T. Jesse Many Latitudes 167 We played cut-throat and had a rather dejected evening.

1932 E. Waugh Black Mischief vii. 257 Anstruther, Legge and William were playing cut-throat bridge.

d. Used attributively or absol. of a razor consisting of a blade set in a handle, as distinguished from a safety-razor.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > razor > with open blade

cut-throat1932

1932 D. L. Sayers Have his Carcase i. 18 At the cost of a slight cut on her finger, she drew up an open cut-throat razor.

1957 J. Frame Owls do Cry 75 The old lather-up and the strop and the cut-throat razor for him.

1959 Sunday Times 22 Feb. 29/3 The advent of the safety-razor..happily put an end to my first clumsy essays with the open cut-throat.

†2. A kind of firearm; cf. murderer n. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1566 in Thomson Inventory (1815) 169 (Jam.) Item, sex cutthrottis of irne with their mekis.

1567 Sempill Ballads (1872) 2 Cunning of crosbow cutthrot and culuering.

†3. A dark lantern. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1783 Bailey's Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 25) Cut-throat, also a kind of lantern.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Cut-throat, a dark lantern or bowet..so constructed that the light may be completely obscured, when..necessary for the perpetration of any criminal act.

4. The Mustang grape of Texas, having an acrid taste. Cent. Dict. refers to Sportsman's Gazetteer.

a. More fully cut-throat finch n.

Brit.

/ˌkʌtθrəʊt ˈfɪn(t)ʃ/

U.S.

/ˌkətˌθroʊt ˈfɪn(t)ʃ/

West African English

/ˌkɔttrot ˈfin(t)ʃ/

a bird-fancier's name for Amadina fasciata, the Red-collared Bengaly of Swainson, a small West African bird, the male of which has a red mark round the throat.[Here cut is the past participle qualifying throat.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Estrildidae (wax-bill) > miscellaneous types of

firefinch1783

redhead1816

firetail1845

fire-tailed finch1845

zebra finch1868

magpie finch1869

cut-throat finch1872

melba finch1876

zebra1879

bluebill1955

1872 Revised List Vertebr. Anim. Zool. Gard. 137 Cut-throat Finch.

1873 Spectator 22 Feb. 240/1 Here are ‘Cut-throats’, the male with a murderous red mark round his soft neck, the female without it.

1891 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 20 Feb. (Suppl.) S. 528/3 Cutthroats, silver bills, waxbills..spice birds, Java sparrows.

b. In full cut-throat trout: see quots.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > salmo clarki (cut-throat)

cut-throat1891

1891 Cent. Dict. Cutthroat trout, the Rocky Mountain brook-trout.

1897 Outing 30 163/2 The father of all the Pacific trout, the black-spotted or ‘Cut-throat’ (Salmo mykiss) with the scarlet splotch on his lower jaw.

1946 Mazama Dec. 33/2 Steelhead trout and sea-run cut-throat trout provide capital sport for fishermen.

Compounds

attributive. That is, or has the character of, a cutthroat or assassin; of or pertaining to cutthroats; murderous, ruffianly. Also transferred. Cut-throat Lane, a frequent local appellation of a lonely lane.

ΚΠ

1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Dij A cut throte rutterkin.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 110 You call me misbeleeuer, cut-throate dog.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Cut-Throat Place, an Inn or Tavern, where People are exacted upon.

1848 W. Armstrong Stocks 31 [Harlem rail road stock] is generally considered to be most essentially a ‘cut-throat stock’.

1874 G. W. Dasent Half a Life II. 110 A cut-throat lonely place.

1881 Bradstreet's 16 Apr. 237/4 The three great objects..are..to avoid cut-throat competition.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Nov. 12/1 Cut-throat competition is not for gentlemen.

1903 Westm. Gaz. 17 Jan. 3/1 The wide valley of the Po, where, in nine months of the year, the cut-throat tramontana is a frequent visitant.

1914 W. B. Yeats Responsibilities 35 A cloud blown from the cut-throat north.

1938 E. Waugh Scoop i. v It's going to be a tough assignment from all I hear. Cut-throat competition.

Derivatives

ˈcut-throat v. (transitive) to cut the throat of.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [adjective] > types of competition

drawn1610

indifferent?1611

cut-throat?a1625

equal1653

runaway1797

close-run1813

neck and neck1828

tight1828

dog-eat-dog1872

winner-take(s)-all1969

two-horse1976

the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > murder or assassination > [adjective]

murderous1535

Cainish?1541

murdering1550

murderish1550

Herodian1581

slaughterous1582

death-doing1590

carnal1597

assassinating1609

man-killing?1611

assassinous1623

cut-throat?a1625

Cain-like1656

red-handed1781

assassinative1841

manquelling1916

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [adjective] > type of game

cut-throat?a1625

?a1625 Lawes of Candy iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Iii/1 Money..Is now a God on earth: it..Bribes justice, cut-throats honour.

ˈcutthroat-like adv.

ΚΠ

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Meurtrierement, murtherously, cruelly, cut~throat-like.

ˈcut-throatry n. (also cut-throatery) practice proper to a cutthroat.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1606 Wily Beguilde 8 For to let my house before my lease be out, is cut-throatery.

ˈcut-throatish adj. pertaining or proper to a cut-throat.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1870 Echo 15 Dec. They look more cut-throatish than ever.

ˈcut-throaty adj. Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated ii. 32 If God made man..as he [Mr. Hobbs] saies, in such a cut-throatty condition.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	cut-throat
释义	cut-throatn. Brit. /ˈkʌtθrəʊt/, U.S. /ˈkətˌθroʊt/ Forms: Also cutthroat. Etymology: See cut v. Compounds. 1. a. One who cuts throats; a ruffian who murders or does deeds of violence; a murderer or assassin by profession. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun] routerc1300 tyrant1377 ruffy?a1513 ruffiana1525 kempy1525 cut-throat1535 slasher1559 cutter1569 hackster1574 hacker1576 cuttle1600 ruffiano1611 bully rook1673 thug1838 Apache1902 ned1910 rough-up1911 goonda1926 hoon1938 messer1942 the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun] > murderer or assassin banea800 murthereOE quellerOE manslaughta1225 manquellec1275 murderer1340 Cainc1380 drepera1400 sicariana1400 murder mana1450 interfector1450 murdrier1481 murdresara1500 assassin1531 cut-throat1535 cutter1569 baner1605 brave1606 bravo1609 dagger-mana1616 assassinate1621 assassinator1651 sword-taker1660 assassinant1662 banesman1870 hatchet man1876 murdermonger1900 hit-man1970 mechanic1972 contract killer1980 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force > person cut-throat1535 club-fist1575 violator1583 club-lawyera1670 thug1838 outrager1840 messer1942 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 449 Thir cankerit cut~throttis of crudelitie. 1694 E. Phillips tr. J. Milton Lett. of State 292 Those sanctifi'd Cut-throats. 1793 Ld. Auckland's Corr. III. 109 A corps franc, raised on the frontiers of Hungary..I never saw such a set of desperate cut-throats. 1889 J. A. Froude Two Chiefs Dunboy xxv. 380 I am a soldier, sir, and not a cut-throat. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. x. 484 It is the verie tried cutthrote of all amitie, friendshippe, [etc.]. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xxix. 855 There is no greater a cut-throte to dogs then the wild bore. 1878 W. Black Goldsmith xii. 102 A paid libeller and cut-throat of public reputations. c. Used attributively or elliptically of several games of chance, esp. of a three-handed card game in which one or more players score individually rather than in partnership. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > other games of chance > [noun] even or odd1538 love1585 Jack-in-the-box?1593 under-hat1629 pluck-penny1643 morra1659 catch-dolt1674 shuffle-cap1712 fair chance1723 E O1751 teetotum1753 rondo1821 cut-throat1823 hop-my-fool1824 odds and evens1841 spin-'em-round1851 halfpenny under the hat1853 racehorses1853 fan-tan1878 tan1883 pakapoo1886 legality1888 petits chevaux1891 pai gow1906 boule1911 put and take1921 1823 I. Holmes Acct. U.S.A. 353 I have seen at least twenty boys surrounding a billiard table, playing at a sort of game of chance they call cut-throat. 1868 All Year Round 31 Oct. 489/2 It is not uncommon, therefore, to see merchants (especially American) having a social game of ‘cut-throat monte’, ‘eucre’, or ‘poker’, with piles of gold before them. 1870 J. C. Duval Adventures Big-Foot Wallace 247 As soon as I can learn to play poker and cut-throat loo. 1904 E. A. Tennant ABC of Bridge (ed. 4) 100 Cut-Throat Bridge. Though the above is the simplest way of playing three-handed Bridge, Cut-Throat has great attractions for some people. 1907 Hoyle's Games 131 Three-Handed Bridge, Cut-Throat, or Dummy Bridge. 1907 Hoyle's Games 223 Euchre... Cut-Throat, or Three-Hand. 1928 F. T. Jesse Many Latitudes 167 We played cut-throat and had a rather dejected evening. 1932 E. Waugh Black Mischief vii. 257 Anstruther, Legge and William were playing cut-throat bridge. d. Used attributively or absol. of a razor consisting of a blade set in a handle, as distinguished from a safety-razor. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > razor > with open blade cut-throat1932 1932 D. L. Sayers Have his Carcase i. 18 At the cost of a slight cut on her finger, she drew up an open cut-throat razor. 1957 J. Frame Owls do Cry 75 The old lather-up and the strop and the cut-throat razor for him. 1959 Sunday Times 22 Feb. 29/3 The advent of the safety-razor..happily put an end to my first clumsy essays with the open cut-throat. †2. A kind of firearm; cf. murderer n. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1566 in Thomson Inventory (1815) 169 (Jam.) Item, sex cutthrottis of irne with their mekis. 1567 Sempill Ballads (1872) 2 Cunning of crosbow cutthrot and culuering. †3. A dark lantern. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1783 Bailey's Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 25) Cut-throat, also a kind of lantern. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Cut-throat, a dark lantern or bowet..so constructed that the light may be completely obscured, when..necessary for the perpetration of any criminal act. 4. The Mustang grape of Texas, having an acrid taste. Cent. Dict. refers to Sportsman's Gazetteer. 5. a. More fully cut-throat finch n. Brit. /ˌkʌtθrəʊt ˈfɪn(t)ʃ/ , U.S. /ˌkətˌθroʊt ˈfɪn(t)ʃ/ , West African English /ˌkɔttrot ˈfin(t)ʃ/ a bird-fancier's name for Amadina fasciata, the Red-collared Bengaly of Swainson, a small West African bird, the male of which has a red mark round the throat.[Here cut is the past participle qualifying throat.] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Estrildidae (wax-bill) > miscellaneous types of firefinch1783 redhead1816 firetail1845 fire-tailed finch1845 zebra finch1868 magpie finch1869 cut-throat finch1872 melba finch1876 zebra1879 bluebill1955 1872 Revised List Vertebr. Anim. Zool. Gard. 137 Cut-throat Finch. 1873 Spectator 22 Feb. 240/1 Here are ‘Cut-throats’, the male with a murderous red mark round his soft neck, the female without it. 1891 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 20 Feb. (Suppl.) S. 528/3 Cutthroats, silver bills, waxbills..spice birds, Java sparrows. b. In full cut-throat trout: see quots. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > salmo clarki (cut-throat) cut-throat1891 1891 Cent. Dict. Cutthroat trout, the Rocky Mountain brook-trout. 1897 Outing 30 163/2 The father of all the Pacific trout, the black-spotted or ‘Cut-throat’ (Salmo mykiss) with the scarlet splotch on his lower jaw. 1946 Mazama Dec. 33/2 Steelhead trout and sea-run cut-throat trout provide capital sport for fishermen. Compounds attributive. That is, or has the character of, a cutthroat or assassin; of or pertaining to cutthroats; murderous, ruffianly. Also transferred. Cut-throat Lane, a frequent local appellation of a lonely lane. ΚΠ 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Dij A cut throte rutterkin. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 110 You call me misbeleeuer, cut-throate dog. View more context for this quotation 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Cut-Throat Place, an Inn or Tavern, where People are exacted upon. 1848 W. Armstrong Stocks 31 [Harlem rail road stock] is generally considered to be most essentially a ‘cut-throat stock’. 1874 G. W. Dasent Half a Life II. 110 A cut-throat lonely place. 1881 Bradstreet's 16 Apr. 237/4 The three great objects..are..to avoid cut-throat competition. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Nov. 12/1 Cut-throat competition is not for gentlemen. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 17 Jan. 3/1 The wide valley of the Po, where, in nine months of the year, the cut-throat tramontana is a frequent visitant. 1914 W. B. Yeats Responsibilities 35 A cloud blown from the cut-throat north. 1938 E. Waugh Scoop i. v It's going to be a tough assignment from all I hear. Cut-throat competition. Derivatives ˈcut-throat v. (transitive) to cut the throat of.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [adjective] > types of competition drawn1610 indifferent?1611 cut-throat?a1625 equal1653 runaway1797 close-run1813 neck and neck1828 tight1828 dog-eat-dog1872 winner-take(s)-all1969 two-horse1976 the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > murder or assassination > [adjective] murderous1535 Cainish?1541 murdering1550 murderish1550 Herodian1581 slaughterous1582 death-doing1590 carnal1597 assassinating1609 man-killing?1611 assassinous1623 cut-throat?a1625 Cain-like1656 red-handed1781 assassinative1841 manquelling1916 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [adjective] > type of game cut-throat?a1625 ?a1625 Lawes of Candy iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Iii/1 Money..Is now a God on earth: it..Bribes justice, cut-throats honour. ˈcutthroat-like adv. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Meurtrierement, murtherously, cruelly, cut~throat-like. ˈcut-throatry n. (also cut-throatery) practice proper to a cutthroat.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1606 Wily Beguilde 8 For to let my house before my lease be out, is cut-throatery. ˈcut-throatish adj. pertaining or proper to a cut-throat.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1870 Echo 15 Dec. They look more cut-throatish than ever. ˈcut-throaty adj. Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated ii. 32 If God made man..as he [Mr. Hobbs] saies, in such a cut-throatty condition. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1535
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