Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Scot. Short.
  • noun A short spoon.
  • noun A short tobacco pipe.
  • noun A light or unchaste woman.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Scotland, Northern England Short, shortened, or small; curtailed.
  • noun Scotland A short spoon.
  • noun Scotland A short tobacco pipe.
  • noun Scotland, archaic A wanton or unchaste woman.

Etymologies

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From cut.

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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 Ramsay, Edward B 1874

  • '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 Howard Pease

  • 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 George Latimer Apperson 1897

  • 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 Frank Jardine 1880

  • 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 Andrew Lang 1878

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

    Black Ivory Francis B. Pearson 1859

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

    Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

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

    Hatchery Fish: The Weakest Link 2009

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

    Hatchery Fish: The Weakest Link 2009

  • 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 2009

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  • See Jenny wren.

    February 13, 2008