† cuttedadj.
/ˈkʌtɪd/ Obsolete or dialect.
= cut adj.
1. Wounded, mutilated, etc., by cutting; castrated; carved, sculptured, engraved, etc.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [adjective] > castrated
geldedc1225
cutted1438
geltc1440
chaste1526
evirate1606
castrated1609
memberless1611
unpaveda1616
libbed1616
cut1624
eunuched1627
caponed1630
untesticled1668
castrate1704
eunuch1817
emasculated1830
eunuchal1878
neuter1893
eunuchoid1894
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [adjective] > sculptured or carved
ycorven1297
carven1330
graven1382
cutted1438
carveda1530
shorn1547
well carved1548
graved1552
under-carved1616
sculptile1621
sculptated1653
featured1745
sculptured1815
glyphica1856
chiselled1873
chip-carved1890
sculpted1961
1438 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 111 My cuttyd hors.
1521 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 129 A sylver spoyne with cuttid starttis.
a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 35/2 Where cutted Carcasses quick Members reel.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. i. ii. 10 The cutted fingers of the shearers.
2.
a. Cut short; curtailed; ending abruptly.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > shortness > [adjective] > shortened > (as if) by cutting
cuttedc1386
docked1408
stucked?a1439
trunked1552
cropped1558
lopped1570
short-cut1596
stumped1598
dubbeda1661
truncated1704
truncate1717
well-cropped1805
clipped1870
junky1873
lobbed1883
crop1957
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋348 The horrible disordinat scantnesse of clothyng, as been thise kuttid sloppes or hayn~selyns.
c1394 P. Pl. Crede 434 His wijf walked him wiþ..In a cutted cote, cutted full heyȝe.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 62v The Nardus of the mountayn..hathe a short eare and cutted.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 716 A Syluer piller, with a shorte or cutted point.
b. Wearing short skirts. cutted friar n. = curtal friar n. at curtal adj. 6.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > friar > [noun] > with short frock
cutted friarc1460
curtal friarc1610
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing clothing for body (and limbs) > wearing a skirt or skirts > types of
cuttedc1460
curtaileda1625
kilted1809
fustanellaed1853
miniskirted1966
c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 305 These Cuttid galauntes with theire codware; þat is an vngoodly gise.
16.. R. Hood & Fryer Tucke iii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. 123 ‘I'le never eate nor drinke’, Robin Hood sa[id], ‘Till I that cutted friar see’.
3.
a. Contracted in expression; abbreviated, concise.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adjective] > compressed
contract1561
cutted1565
curtal1579
contracted1595
astrict1631
compressed1822
condensed1823
syncopated1897
capsule1938
1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Circuncisæ et breues orationes..Cutted, and short sentences, or orations.
1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 10 b If he had not broken the weightnesse of woordes with cutted sentences.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 198 His cutted Sillogisme.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 178 This figure for pleasure may be called in our vulgar the cutted comma, for that there cannot be a shorter diuision then at euery words end.
b. Short to rudeness; curt, snappish.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adjective] > curt or brusque
short1390
cutted1530
snappish1542
abrupt1578
stunt1581
blunt1590
brusquea1639
snapping1642
blatec1650
brisk1665
bluff1705
offhand1708
prerupt1727
squab1737
prompt1768
crisp1814
brief1818
stuntya1825
curt1831
snappy1834
bluffy1844
nebby1873
offhandish1886
nebsy1894
1530 [see cuttedly adv. at Derivatives].
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. x. xxiii. 376 Whereupon, there began some short and cutted shrewd words to be dealt betweene.
a1627 T. Middleton Women beware Women iii. i, in 2 New Playes (1657) 134 She's grown so cutted, there's no speaking to her.
1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) i. 7 Ya rearing, snapping, tedious, cutted Snibblenose.
1880 T. Q. Couch E. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 83 Cuttit, sharp in reply; pert; impudent.
Derivatives
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adverb] > curtly or brusquely
cuttedly1530
snappishly1548
snappingly1567
bluntly1579
brusquely1671
bluffly1794
shortlya1817
curtly1866
offhandishly1926
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adverb] > compressed or abbreviated
narrowlyOE
cuttedly1530
contractly1576
contractedly1611
abstractlya1638
curtailedlya1657
abridgedly1704
compressedly1830
compressingly1830
condensely1832
condensedly1880
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 835/1 Cuttedly, frowardly, cauesne.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. 18 a Can not be reported, but both coldely and also cuttedly.
a1662 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 119 The Moderator, cuttitlie (as the man naturallie hath a little choler), answered, That, etc.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > curtness or brusqueness
abruptness1591
snappishness1598
bluntness1608
cuttedness1622
briskness1668
bluntishness1691
snappinga1734
brusquerie1752
off-handedness1823
brusqueness1859
bluffness1863
curtness1882
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 136 The man that would liue long must not be too short [in temper and speech]. This cuttednesse hath cut off many a mans life before his time.
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