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Cuttle vs Cuttlefish - What's the difference?

cuttle | cuttlefish |

As nouns the difference between cuttle and cuttlefish

is that cuttle is the cuttlefish or cuttle can be (obsolete) a knife or cuttle can be (obsolete) a foul-mouthed fellow while cuttlefish is any of various squidlike cephalopod marine mollusks of the genus that have ten arms and a calcareous internal shell and eject a dark inky fluid when in danger.

cuttle

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) cudele, of uncertain origin.

Noun

(en noun)
  • The cuttlefish.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) cultel, (coltel), (coutel), from (etyl) cultellus. See (cutlass).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A knife.
    • (Bale)

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A foul-mouthed fellow.
  • * Shakespeare
    • An you play the saucy cuttle me.
    (Webster 1913)

    cuttlefish

    English

    (wikipedia cuttlefish)

    Noun

  • Any of various squidlike cephalopod marine mollusks of the genus that have ten arms and a calcareous internal shell and eject a dark inky fluid when in danger.

    • Synonyms

    * inkfish

    Derived terms

    * cuttlefish bone

    See also

    * octopus * squid