✂️ Short or small 👗 A short undergarment 🚬 A small pipe

cutty

9.9

A small pipe used for smoking tobacco

noun
/ˈkʌti/

Archaic

: pipa

After dinner, he lit a cutty as he shared stories with his friends.

Examples

He took out his favorite cutty to enjoy some tobacco while relaxing on the porch.
The old man had a collection of cutty pipes displayed on the shelf.
Spider, on your way over here, bring me a Cutty and water.

GoodFellas (1990)

Synonyms

pipe

vscutty

99 5.5

A small tube with a bowl for smoking tobacco

is a smaller, short clay version rather than any tube used for smoking

tobacco pipe

vscutty

1 3.2

A small tube with a bowl that you use to smoke tobacco

is smaller and often made of clay rather than general smoking tubes

Compounds

cutty stool

Archaic

9.9

A low wooden stool in old Scottish churches where someone sat to be shamed

How Short

cutty

Archaic

9.9

clay pipe

1 4.4

briar pipe

9.1

Surface Forms

cutty singular

cutties plural

Morphology

cutty = cut (semi-transparent) = cut + y

The word appears formed from 'cut' + '-y' meaning 'short', but the sense 'small clay pipe' is an extended, dialectal usage not fully predictable from the base.

Etymology

Cutty for a small tobacco pipe comes from the Scots word cutty meaning 'short' and is like the English word cut, so a cutty is simply a short, small pipe.