culotted

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Adjective[edit]

culotted (not comparable)

  1. Dressed in culottes.
    • 2014, Elinor Lipman, Then She Found Me:
      I could picture Jack's girlfriend; she wasn't nice enough for him. She would be one of those teachers who golfed: a short, culotted gym teacher, forty-five, with pompons at her heels and overdeveloped calves.

Etymology 2[edit]

Compare French culot (the residue on the bottom of a smoker's pipe).

Adjective[edit]

culotted (not comparable)

  1. Of a smoker's pipe: coated in residue from past smoking.
    • 1856, Léon Beauvallet, Rachel and the New World: A Trip to the United States and Cuba:
      As to the negresses, if they can always have an enormous culotted pipe in their mouths, it is all they want! These fine women smoke from morning till night.