cutty
- noun
- Archaic
:
camisón
- The character in the novel wore a simple cutty beneath her heavy dress.
Examples
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She wore a cutty under her dress.
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During the festival, traditional dancers dressed in a cutty and tartan skirts.
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In the old cottage, she found a faded cutty among her grandmother's belongings.
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The cutty was made of fine silk.
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In the old cottage, she found a faded cutty among her grandmother's belongings.
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The character in the novel wore a simple cutty beneath her heavy dress.
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During the festival, traditional dancers dressed in a cutty and tartan skirts.
Synonyms
3
8.4
A piece of clothing worn under other clothes like socks or an undershirt
1
7.7
Short underpants for women or children
Compounds
How Short
Surface Forms
Morphology
cutty = cutty sark (opaque) = cut + y
The noun sense comes from the dialectal compound 'cutty sark' (short shirt) and requires knowledge of that compound and Scots vocabulary, so learners cannot derive it from 'cut' + '-y' alone.
Etymology
Cutty as a short undergarment comes from the Scots phrase cutty sark, which means 'short shirt', so it was a name for a small shirt worn under other clothes.