| 单词 | cutty gun |
| 释义 | > as lemmascutty gun 1. Cut short, curtailed, so abnormally short as to appear to have been cut, esp. in certain connections, as cutty knife, cutty pipe (humorously cutty gun), cutty spoon, cutty sark, etc. (in which the two words are often unnecessarily hyphenated). Scottish and northern dialect. ΚΠ 17.. Old Song, Andro, etc. (Jam.) But wha cam in to heese our hope, But Andro, wi' his cutty-gun? 1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 562 Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn..In longitude tho' sorely scanty. 1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song 208 (Jam.) He gae to me a cuttie knife, And bade me keep it as my life. 1830 W. Scott Old Mortality Introd., in Tales of my Landlord (new ed.) I. 238 The man of cutty-spoon and ladle saw his trade interrupted. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxiii. 221 Allowed to use his cutty-pipe. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Cutty, short. < as lemmas |
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