| 词汇 | cutty |
| 词源 | cutty; Cutty Sark. Cutty means anything short in Scottish En- glish, a short person, a short-tempered person, etc. Cutty Sark is the name of a famous 19th century British tea clipper that took its name from Robert Burns’s poem “Tam O’Shanter,” in which a young witch wearing only a “cutty sark” (a short shift or nightgown) chases a Scottish farmer. |
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