ppl. a. Obs. or dial. [An earlier form of the pa. pple. of CUT v., retained for some time in adjective use.] = CUT ppl. a.
1. Wounded, mutilated, etc., by cutting; castrated; carved, sculptured, engraved, etc.
1438. E. E. Wills (1882), 111. My cuttyd hors.
1521. Test. Ebor. (Surtees), V. 129. A sylver spoyne with cuttid starttis.
a. 1649. Drumm. of Hawth., Poems, Wks. (1711), 35/2. Where cutted carcasses quick members reel.
1830. Galt, Lawrie T., I. i. (1869), 5. The cutted fingers of the shearers.
2. Cut short; curtailed; ending abruptly.
c. 1385. Chaucer, Pars. T., ¶ 348. The horrible disordinat scantnesse of clothyng, as been thise kuttid sloppes or haynselyns.
c. 1394. P. Pl. Crede, 434. His wijf walked him wiþ … In a cutted cote, cutted full heyȝe.
1562. Turner, Herbal, II. 62 b. The Nardus of the mountayn … hathe a short eare and cutted.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1673), 555. A silver pillar, with a short or cutted point.
b. Wearing short skirts. Cutted friar: = curtal friar: see CURTAL B 6.
c. 1460. J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, 305. These Cuttid galauntes with theire codware; þat is an vngoodly gise.
16[?]. R. Hood & Fryer Tucke, iii. in Child, Ballads (1888), III. 123. ‘I’le never eate nor drinke,’ Robin Hood sa[id], ‘Till I that cutted friar see.’
3. Contracted in expression; abbreviated, concise.
1565–73. Cooper, Thesaurus, Circuncisæ et breues orationes … Cutted, and short sentences, or orations.
1569. J. Sanford, trans. Agrippa’s Van. Artes, 10 b. If he had not broken the weightnesse of woordes with cutted sentences.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 198. His cutted Sillogisme.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, III. xix. (Arb.), 222. This figure for pleasure may be called in our vulgar the cutted comma, for that there cannot be a shorter diuision then at euery words end.
b. Short to rudeness; curt, snappish.
1530. [see CUTTEDLY].
1600. Holland, Livy, X. xxiii. 376. Whereupon, there began some short and cutted shrewd words to be dealt betweene.
a. 1627. Middleton, Women beware W., III. i. She’s grown so cutted, there’s no speaking to her.
1746. Exmoor Scolding (E. D. S.), Ye rearing, snapping, tedious, cutted Snibblenose.
1880. E. Cornwall Gloss., Cuttit, sharp in reply; pert; impudent.
Hence † Cuttedly adv., shortly, concisely, abruptly, curtly; † Cuttedness.
1530. Palsgr., 835/1. Cuttedly, frowardly, cauesne.
1548. Udall, etc. Erasm. Par., Pref. 18 a. Can not be reported, but both coldely and also cuttedly.
a. 1662. Baillie, Lett. (1775), I. 104 (Jam.). The moderater, cuttedly (as the man naturally hath a little choler), answered, That [etc.].
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., I. 136. The man that would liue long must not be too short [in temper and speech]. This cuttednesse hath cut off many a mans life before his time.
