Cuttle

//ˈkʌtəl// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of cuttlefish.
  2. 2
    A knife. obsolete

    "a sharpe cuttle"

  3. 3
    A foul-mouthed fellow. obsolete

    "An you play the saucy cuttle me."

  4. 4
    ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell wordnet

Synonyms

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cuttlefishcuttlefish

Example

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"An you play the saucy cuttle me."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English cutil, codel, codul, from Old English cudele (“cuttlefish”), a diminutive from Proto-Germanic *kudilǭ, from Proto-Germanic *kuddô + -ilǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”). Equivalent to cod + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare dialectal German Kudele (“cuttlefish”), Norwegian kaule (“cuttlefish”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English coutel, from Old French coutel, coltel, cultel, from Latin cultellus. Doublet of couteau. See cutlass.

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foul mouthed

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