cut
/kʌt/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.24 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "You must cut this flesh from off his breast."
- "Mara: We are forty against four hundred. // Klingon: Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man."
- "Would you please cut the cake?"
- "Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, / With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way."
- "First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour."
- "I have three diamonds to cut today."
Etymology
From Middle English cutten, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Sometimes instead compared to French couteau, itself from Latin culter (“knife”). Copmare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)); also akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced Middle English snithen (from snīþan), still attested in dialectal snithe and snead. See snide. The adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally humorous derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg or to have cut your leg, a euphemism for being very drunk.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kʌt/
- British English: /kʌt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
cuts (present, singular)
cutting (participle, present)
cutted (archaic, nonstandard)
cutten (archaic, participle)
cvt (alternative)
more cut (comparative)
most cut (superlative)
cuts (plural)