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Curt

//kɝt// adj, name, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.

    "Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. [...] Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it […]"

  2. 2
    Short or concise.
Adjective
  1. 1
    brief and to the point; effectively cut short wordnet
  2. 2
    marked by rude or peremptory shortness wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A short form of the male given name Curtis
  2. 2
    A male given name from the Germanic languages, an anglicized spelling of Kurt
Verb
  1. 1
    To cut, cut short, shorten. obsolete, rare

    "Curting thy life, hee takes thy Card away."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the Latin curtus (“shortened”). Cognate with Dutch kort, German kurz, Galician curto, French court, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short.

Etymology 2

From the Latin curtus (“shortened”). Cognate with Dutch kort, German kurz, Galician curto, French court, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short.

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