cutty
/ˈkʌti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.41 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A short tobacco pipe; a cutty-pipe.
noun
A girl or young woman.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From cut + -y.
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
cuttymum
cuttystool