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Meaning of cutty | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
/ˈkʌti/

Definitions

  1. A short spoon.
    Scotland
  2. A short tobacco pipe; a cutty-pipe.
    Scotland
  3. A wanton or unchaste woman.
    Scotland, archaic
  4. A girl with a short, dumpy figure.
    Scotland, archaic
  5. A girl or young woman.
    Northern-Ireland, Ulster

Examples

“I'm no sae scant of clean pipes as to blaw wi' a brunt cutty.”
“"Why, it's a cutty - an Irish cutty!" shouted Cripps.”
““And me coming a this way out o' my gate to pleasure you, ye ungrateful cutty,””
“A man who reared ten cubs and three cutties.”
“The point of the example is educational, moral, and the moral qualities of the stories attracted Peter Flanagan who remembered them from childhood and told them to the cutties and cubs when he was, for them, a funny old man.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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