Cuttee vs Puttee - What's the difference?
cuttee | puttee |
A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc.
*1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 113:
*:he bought himself a pair of Fox's puttees for going out and polished his belt until it shone like mahogany, and I bet he was never pulled up for having dirty buttons.
As a noun cuttee
is one who is cut (deliberately ignored, as a social snub).As a verb puttee is
.puttee
English
Noun
(en noun)References
* McGregor, R.S, ed. The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary , Oxford university press. 1993 * Platts, John T.A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and EnglishOxford. 1884. * Cappeller, Carl
A Sanskrit-English dictionaryBostin, Ginn and Co., 1891.
