cuttle
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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”).
Noun
cuttle (plural cuttles)
- Synonym of cuttlefish
Etymology 2
From Middle English coutel, from Old French coutel, coltel, cultel, from Latin cultellus. See cutlass.
Noun
cuttle (plural cuttles)
- (obsolete) A knife.
- Template:RQ:Bale The Actes of Englysh Votaries
- a sharpe cuttle
- Template:RQ:Bale The Actes of Englysh Votaries
Etymology 3
Noun
cuttle (plural cuttles)
- (obsolete) A foul-mouthed fellow.
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
- An you play the saucy cuttle me.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cuttle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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