culotted
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Adjective[edit]
culotted (not comparable)
- 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)
- 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.