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Cutty

Cutty is a term with several uses in English-language contexts. In Scottish English, cutty means short, a meaning preserved in the phrase cutty sark, which refers to a witch’s short shirt in Robert Burns’s ballad Tam o’ Shanter. The phrase gave its name to the Cutty Sark, a famous tea clipper.

The Cutty Sark is a 19th-century British tea clipper celebrated for its speed in the tea trade

In modern usage, Cutty is also used as a nickname or diminutive in some English-speaking communities. The

between
Britain
and
China.
Launched
in
1869,
it
became
one
of
the
fastest
clippers
of
its
era
and
served
in
various
cargo
trades
before
retirement.
Today
it
is
preserved
as
a
museum
ship
in
Greenwich,
London.
The
vessel
suffered
a
major
fire
during
restoration
in
2007
and
was
subsequently
rebuilt
and
reopened
to
the
public.
term
appears
in
various
works
of
fiction
and
popular
culture
as
a
proper
noun
or
nickname
for
people
and
characters.