† cutted, ppl. a. Obs. or dial.
(ˈkʌtɪd)
[An earlier form of the pa. pple. of cut v., retained for some time in adjective use.]
= cut ppl. a.
1. Wounded, mutilated, etc., by cutting; castrated; carved, sculptured, engraved, etc.
| 1438 E.E. Wills (1882) 111 My cuttyd hors. 1521 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 129 A sylver spoyne with cuttid starttis. a 1649 Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 35/2 Where cutted carcasses quick members reel. 1830 Galt Lawrie T. i. ii. (1869) 5 The cutted fingers of the shearers. |
2. Cut short; curtailed; ending abruptly.
| c 1386 Chaucer Pars. T. ¶348 The horrible disordinat scantnesse of clothyng, as been thise kuttid sloppes or hayn⁓selyns. c 1394 P. Pl. Crede 434 His wijf walked him wiþ..In a cutted cote, cutted full heyȝe. 1562 Turner Herbal ii. 62 b, The Nardus of the mountayn..hathe a short eare and cutted. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 555 A silver pillar, with a short or cutted point. |
b. Wearing short skirts. cutted friar: = curtal friar: see curtal B 6.
| c 1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 305 These Cuttid galauntes with theire codware; þat is an vngoodly gise. 16.. R. Hood & Fryer Tucke iii. in Child Ballads (1888) III. 123 ‘I'le never eate nor drinke’, Robin Hood sa[id], ‘Till I that cutted friar see’. |
3. Contracted in expression; abbreviated, concise.
| 1565–73 Cooper Thesaurus, Circuncisæ et breues orationes..Cutted, and short sentences, or orations. 1569 J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 10 b, If he had not broken the weightnesse of woordes with cutted sentences. 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 198 His cutted Sillogisme. 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 222 This figure for pleasure may be called in our vulgar the cutted comma, for that there cannot be a shorter diuision then at euery words end. |
b. Short to rudeness; curt, snappish.
| 1530 [see cuttedly]. 1600 Holland Livy x. xxiii. 376 Whereupon, there began some short and cutted shrewd words to be dealt betweene. a 1627 Middleton Women beware W. iii. i, She's grown so cutted, there's no speaking to her. 1746 Exmoor Scolding (E.D.S.), Ye rearing, snapping, tedious, cutted Snibblenose. 1880 E. Cornwall Gloss., Cuttit, sharp in reply; pert; impudent. |
Hence † ˈcuttedly adv., shortly, concisely, abruptly, curtly; † cuttedness.
| 1530 Palsgr. 835/1 Cuttedly, frowardly, cauesne. 1548 Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Pref. 18 a, Can not be reported, but both coldely and also cuttedly. a 1662 Baillie Lett. (1775) I. 104 (Jam.) The moderater, cuttedly (as the man naturally hath a little choler), answered, That, etc. 1622 Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman D'Alf. i. 136 The man that would liue long must not be too short [in temper and speech]. This cuttednesse hath cut off many a mans life before his time. |