cuttle

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʌtəl/
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Etymology 1[edit]

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[edit]

cuttle (plural cuttles)

  1. Synonym of cuttlefish

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

cuttle (plural cuttles)

  1. (obsolete) A knife.
    • 1546, John Bale, The Actes of Englysh Votaries:
      a sharpe cuttle

Etymology 3[edit]

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Noun[edit]

cuttle (plural cuttles)

  1. (obsolete) A foul-mouthed fellow.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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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