cuttyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From cut +‎ -y.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkʌti/
• 韻: -ʌti

形容詞

cutty (comparative more cutty, superlative most cutty)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Short, shortened, or small; curtailed.
2. (of audio or video) Having many cuts.
3. Sharp, cutting easily.

派生語

名詞

cutty (plural cutties)

1. (Scotland) A short spoon.
2. (Scotland) A short tobacco pipe; a cutty-pipe.
   • 1750, Allan Ramsay, A Collection of Scots Proverbs, page 51:

     I'm no sae scant of clean pipes as to blaw wi' a brunt cutty.

   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 11:

     "Why, it's a cutty — an Irish cutty!" shouted Cripps.

3. (Scotland, archaic) A wanton or unchaste woman.
   • 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:

     “And me coming a this way out o' my gate to pleasure you, ye ungrateful cutty,”

4. (Scotland, archaic) A girl with a short, dumpy figure.
5. (Northern Ireland, Ulster) A girl or young woman.

   Coordinate term: cub

   • 1993, Ray Givans, No Surrender, Castlecaulfield, Lapwing Publications, →ISBN, page 14:

     A man who reared ten cubs and three cutties.

   • 2016 September 12, Henry Glassie, The Stars of Ballymenone, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 229:

     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.

参考

• cutty grass

参照

• John Jamieson (1825) Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language [1]