Word: cut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cutten, 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”)). Sometimes instead compared to French couteau, itself from Latin culter (“knife”). Compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)); also 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. Pronunciation: /kʌt/, /kʊt/ 1. The act of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: He made a fine cut with his sword. 2. The act of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 3. The act of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 4. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: a smooth or clear cut 5. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 6. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Look at this cut on my finger! 7. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 8. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: a cut through the hillside for a railroad Example: which great cut or ditch Sesostris […] purposed to have made a great deale wider and deeper. 9. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 10. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The taxman always gets his cut, and that's fine as long as it's a haircut and not an amputation. Example: The bank robbers disbanded after everyone got their cut of the money. 11. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The boss took a 5% pay cut. Example: The editors went a little crazy making so many cuts. 12. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: I like the cut of that suit. Example: I like the cut of that jib. 13. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: That’s our largest cut of meat. Example: Cope pushed away his coffee-cup and asked the young Greek for a cut of pie. 14. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The Vegas Strip is a supposedly new cut of beef. 15. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 16. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 17. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 18. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 19. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, especially, figuratively, uncountable Example: The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts. 20. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: the director's cut 21. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top. 22. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 23. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed. Example: After several experiences like this, I began to entertain a sort of respect for Kooloo, as quite a man of the world. In good sooth, he turned out to be one; in one week's time giving me the cut direct, and lounging by without even nodding. He must have taken me for part of the landscape. 24. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 25. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable Example: 1966-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure We got out & there was a group of boppers, bout 25 of 'm in a group. They started yellin cuts, "queer" seemed to be the favorite they all began chanting it. "Hey, yer not gonna serve those queers, are ya Howie?" 26. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified. Example: Best cuts: "The Evil Dude," "Kung Fu, Too!" "Mama Love," "New Orleans" (with a punchy vocal by Teresa Brewer). 27. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 28. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 29. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 30. The result of cutting. Labels: Internet, countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: That's the TL;DR, anyway. You can find a more detailed version under the cut. 31. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The shunter has a lightweight portable radio transmitter by which, as he uncouples an incoming train into cuts for marshalling, he informs the Traffic Office of the number of wagons in each cut and its siding; [...]. 32. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: a book illustrated with fine cuts 33. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable Example: He's buy me a whit Cut, forth for to ride 34. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, dated, figuratively, slang, uncountable 35. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Two women for stealing 30 cuttes of linen yarn. 36. The result of cutting. Labels: figuratively, slang, uncountable Example: Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut. 37. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 38. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable Example: I'm laying in a cut 'bout to shoot me a mutt Example: I see Xzibit in the cut, hey, nigga, roll that weed up. 39. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 40. The result of cutting. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable