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Nutty vs Cutty - What's the difference?

nutty | cutty |

As adjectives the difference between nutty and cutty

is that nutty is containing nuts while cutty is (scotland|northern england) short, shortened, or small; curtailed.

As a noun cutty is

(scotland) a short spoon.

nutty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Containing nuts
  • Reminiscent of nuts
  • * 1997 , Mary Jo Plutt, Prevention's Stop Dieting and Lose Weight Cookbook , Rodale, ISBN 0875964699, p. 210:
    • Brown rice has had only its outer hull removed, leaving it with a beige color and a a pleasantly nutty flavor.
  • Barmy, crazy, mad.

    • Usage notes

    In sense “insane”, similar to nuts, but more limited and somewhat milder: nutty means “eccentric, insane”, while “nuts” can mean either “insane” or “enthused, agitated” (“the crowd went nuts”), for which “nutty” is not used: *“the crowd went nutty”.

    Synonyms

    * nuts, squirrelly * See also

    Related terms

    * nutter * nutty as a fruitcake

    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] ----