cut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌt/
ipa: /kʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: more cut
form: most cut
Etymology: From Middle English cutten, kitten, kytten, ketten (“to cut”) (compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe or snead. See snide. Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.
Senses: examples: text: The real purpose of building this railway on the part of the Japanese imperialists at that time was to spy on the Mongolian People's Republic and to transport the timber produced in the A-erh-t'ai forest zone.[…]The principal cargo consists of cut timber from the A-erh-t'ai-shan, and the cereal products of Wu-lan-hao-t'e.
ref: 1958 November 7 [1956], Excerpts from "Economic Geography of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region", United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 58:
glosses: Having been cut.
examples: text: The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
text: Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
glosses: Reduced.
glosses: Carved into a shape; not raw.
raw_tags: of a gem
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
raw_tags: of a shot
examples: text: Or how 'bout Shane DiMora? Could he possibly get rip-roaring cut this time around?
ref: 1988, Steve Holman, “Christian Conquers Columbus”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 28-34:
text: That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.
ref: 2010, Bill Geiger, “6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks”, in Reps!, 17:106:
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
glosses: Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
examples: text: ‘Here y'are,’ says the happy butcher, dragging out a bucket. ‘Good riddance. But me dogs'll be cut tonight, I tell ya. That's their grub.’
ref: 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 41
glosses: Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
examples: text: I was dev’lish cut—uncommon—been dining with some chaps at Greenwich.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 51, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: Adrian Quist
word: adrip
word: aled up
word: all mops and brooms
word: arseholed
word: a sheet in the wind
word: a sheet in the wind's eye
word: bedrunken
word: befuddled
word: beliquored
word: besotted
word: besotten
word: bevvied
word: bibacious
word: bibulous
word: binned
word: bingoed
word: bladdered
word: blasted
word: blewed
word: blind
word: blind drunk
word: blitzed
word: blocked
word: blootered
word: blottoed
word: blue
word: bollocksed
word: bombed
word: boozy
word: bosky
word: bottled
word: Brahms
word: Brahms and Liszt
word: budgy
word: bungalowed
word: bungfu
word: burlin'
word: canned
word: clobbered
word: corned
word: cocked
word: cockeyed
word: crapulous
word: crocked
word: cunted
word: cup-shot
word: cup-shotten
word: cut
word: dead drunk
word: destroyed
word: disguised
word: drunk
word: drunk as a piper
word: drunked up
word: drunken
word: ebriated
word: ebriose
word: elephant's
word: elephant's trunk
word: elevated
word: faced
word: fap
word: fershnickered
word: flooey
word: floored
word: flush
word: flushed
word: flustered
word: fluted
word: fluthered
word: feeling no pain
word: fou
word: four sheets in the wind
word: fresh
word: fried
word: frosted
word: fuckered up
word: fuckfaced
word: fuddled
word: full
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: gassed
word: gattered
word: gee-eyed
word: gesuip
word: ginned
word: gished
word: glorious
word: groggified
word: groggy
word: half polluted
word: half cut
word: half lit
word: half seas over
word: hammered
word: have drink taken
word: have the sun in one's eyes
word: hazed
word: high as a Georgia pine
word: high as a kite
word: high
word: hog-whimpering
word: honkers
word: hooched up
word: hooted
word: hoovered
word: hosed
word: how came you so
word: impaired
word: in liquor
word: in one's altitudes
word: in one's cups
word: in the bag
word: in the drink
word: inebriate
word: inebriated
word: inebrious
word: insober
word: insobrietous
word: inter pocula
word: jaked
word: jarred
word: juiced
word: juiced up
word: kaylied
word: kisky
word: lamped
word: langered
word: langers
word: larruped
word: lash
word: lashed
word: lathered
word: legless
word: liquored up
word: liquory
word: lit
word: loaded
word: looped
word: loopy
word: loose
word: lubed
word: lubed up
word: lubricated
word: lushed
word: mad with it
word: maggot
word: maggoted
word: mashed
word: maudlin
word: medicated
word: messed up
word: monged
word: mortal
word: mortalled
word: Mozart and Liszt
word: muddled
word: muggy
word: mullered
word: munted
word: muzzy
word: MWI
word: nappy
word: newted
word: nimptopsical
word: obfuscated
word: obliviated
word: off one's box
word: off one's head
word: off one's tits
word: oiled
word: oiled up
word: Oliver
word: Oliver Twist
word: on the ran tan
word: ossified
word: out of it
word: out of one's box
word: out of one's face
word: out of one's head
word: out of sight
word: overcome
word: overrefreshed
word: overtaken
word: paralytic
word: parlatic
word: pickled
word: pie-eyed
word: pixilated
word: plastered
word: ploughed
word: plowed
word: polluted
word: potshot
word: potted
word: pounded
word: primed
word: puggled
word: quisby
word: raddled
word: rat-arsed
word: ratted
word: razzled
word: ripe
word: ripped
word: rolling
word: rubbered
word: sauced
word: sauced up
word: scammered
word: schloshed
word: schnockered
word: screwed
word: scuttered
word: sewed up
word: shedded
word: shellacked
word: shicker
word: shickered
word: shitty
word: skunked
word: slammed
word: slarmied
word: slizzard
word: sloppy drunk
word: sloshed
word: smashed
word: snockered
word: snookered
word: snozzled
word: snuffy
word: soaken
word: sodden
word: sotted
word: sottish
word: souped-up
word: soused
word: sozzled
word: sozzly
word: spanceled
word: spannered
word: spiffed
word: splashed
word: spongy
word: sprung
word: squiffed
word: steamboats
word: stewed
word: stinking
word: stinko
word: stoated
word: stoned
word: stonkered
word: stotious
word: strut
word: swacked
word: tanked
word: tanked up
word: temulent
word: temulentive
word: three sheets in the wind
word: three sheets to the wind
word: throwed
word: tight as a tick
word: tight
word: tilted
word: tippled
word: tipsy
word: tired and emotional
word: toasted
word: top-heavy
word: top-heavy with drink
word: toping
word: trashed
word: tuned
word: twatfaced
word: twisted
word: wastey
word: wazzed
word: wazzocked
word: well-oiled
word: wellied
word: wet
word: whittled
word: withered
word: wobbly
word: woozy
word: worse for liquor
word: worse for wear
word: wrecked
word: zoned
word: zonked
word: zooted
word: zorched
word: zotzed
qualifier: formerly UK
glosses: Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
Derived terms: sense: Terms related to cut (adjective)
word: as mad as a cut snake
sense: Terms related to cut (adjective)
word: baby-cut
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word: boy-cut
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word: clean-cut
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word: clear cut
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word: clear-cut
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word: closed-cut valley
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word: crinkle-cut
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word: cut and dried
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word: cut autograph
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word: cutbank
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word: Cut Bank
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word: cut cake
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word: cut cavendish
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word: cut fastball
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word: cut glass
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word: cut lunch
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word: cut nail
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word: cut of the same cloth
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word: cut out of the same cloth
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word: cut-price
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word: cut-rate
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word: cut sig
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word: cut signature
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word: cut splice
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word: English-cut
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word: half cut
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word: handcut
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word: heartcut
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word: kiss-cut
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word: lowcut
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word: mad as a cut snake
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word: mad as cut snakes
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word: noncut
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word: offcut
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word: party-cut
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word: pointcut
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word: rose-cut
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word: steak-cut
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word: steel-cut
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word: straight-cut
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word: tavern-cut
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word: V-cut
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word: wavecut