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Cutty vs Culty - What's the difference?

cutty | culty |

As adjectives the difference between cutty and culty

is that cutty is short, shortened, or small; curtailed while culty is resembling a cult.

As a noun cutty

is a short spoon.

cutty

English

Alternative forms

* cuttie

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (Scotland, Northern England) Short, shortened, or small; curtailed.

    • Derived terms

    * cutty-brown * cutty-gun * cutty-hare * cuttymum * cutty-stoup * cutty-quean

    Noun

    (cutties)
  • (Scotland) A short spoon.
  • (Scotland) A short tobacco pipe.
    • (Ramsay)
  • (Scotland, archaic) A wanton or unchaste woman.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)

    References

    * John Jamieson (1825) A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement [http://books.google.com/books?id=UGAJAAAAQAAJ&dq=cutty+cuttie&lr=&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0] ----

    culty

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a cult
  • * {{quote-news, 1988, January 15, C.C. Pyle, Our Bodies, Their Selves, Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage="They're not real culty . You look in their eyes and there are real people there." }}

    Synonyms

    * cultish * cultlike