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Jutty vs Cutty - What's the difference?

jutty | cutty |

As nouns the difference between jutty and cutty

is that jutty is a projection in a building; also, a pier or mole; a jetty while cutty is (scotland) a short spoon.

As an adjective cutty is

(scotland|northern england) short, shortened, or small; curtailed.

jutty

English

Noun

(jutties)
  • A projection in a building; also, a pier or mole; a jetty
  • *{{quote-book, year=1910, author=Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, title=Tales of Old Japan, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The taking of life being displeasing to Buddha, outside many of the temples old women and children earn a livelihood by selling sparrows, small eels, carp, and tortoises, which the worshipper sets free in honour of the deity, within whose territory cocks and hens and doves, tame and unharmed, perch on every jutty , frieze, buttress, and coigne of vantage. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=I was (says our friend) at the Naval Hospital, at Yarmouth, on the morning when Nelson, after the battle of Copenhagen (having sent the wounded before him,) arrived at the Roads, and landed on the jutty . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1608, author=William Shakespeare, title=Macbeth, chapter=, edition=, url=
  • , passage=This guest of summer, the temple-haunting martlet, does approve by his mansionry that the heaven's breath smells wooingly here; no jutty , frieze, buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle. }} (Webster 1913)

    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] ----