cut – English noun declension

English noun forms of cut

Noun: cut
Singularcut
Pluralcuts

Sample Sentences

  • He made a fine cut with his sword.
  • a smooth or clear cut
  • Look at this cut on my finger!
  • a cut through the hillside for a railroad
  • which great cut or ditch Sesostris […] purposed to have made a great deale wider and deeper. [1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:]
  • The taxman always gets his cut, and that's fine as long as it's a haircut and not an amputation.
  • The bank robbers disbanded after everyone got their cut of the money.
  • Starting today, UE5 is free to download and use, with Epic taking a 5% cut on products created with it only after they earn over $1 million in gross revenue. [2022 April 6, Andrew R. Chow, “Inside Epic's Unreal Engine 5”, in Time:]
  • The boss took a 5% pay cut.
  • The editors went a little crazy making so many cuts.
  • I like the cut of that suit.
  • I like the cut of that jib.
  • with eyes severe and beard of formal cut [c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:]
  • That’s our largest cut of meat.
  • Cope pushed away his coffee-cup and asked the young Greek for a cut of pie. [1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Amidst Cross-Purposes”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 110:]
  • The Vegas Strip is a supposedly new cut of beef.
  • The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts.
  • the director's cut
  • The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.
  • Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed. [1819, Washington Irving, (Rip Van Winkle)::]
  • 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. [1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:]
  • 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?"
  • The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.
  • Best cuts: "The Evil Dude," "Kung Fu, Too!" "Mama Love," "New Orleans" (with a punchy vocal by Teresa Brewer). [1975, Billboard, volume 87, number 24, page 50:]
  • That's the TL;DR, anyway. You can find a more detailed version under the cut.
  • 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; [...]. [1960 June, “Talking of Trains: The new Margam yard”, in Trains Illustrated, page 323:]
  • a book illustrated with fine cuts
  • He's buy me a whit Cut, forth for to ride [1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 2], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act III, scene iv, page 436, column 2:]
  • Two women for stealing 30 cuttes of linen yarn. [1632, North Riding Record:]
  • Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut.
  • I'm laying in a cut 'bout to shoot me a mutt [1992 September 22, Da Lench Mob, “Guerillas^([sic]) in tha Mist” (track 6), in Guerillas in tha Mist:]
  • I see Xzibit in the cut, hey, nigga, roll that weed up. [2003 January 7, “In da Club” (track 5), in Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent:]
  • You don't mind me askin', why you want to sell? I mean, even from inside here, you can take a slice for just layin' in the cut. [2008 March 9, David Simon, “-30-”, in The Wire, season 5, episode 10 (television production), spoken by Slim Charles (Anwan Glover), via HBO:]
  • In the cut, in the cut, rolling doobies up [2010 April 14, Wiz Khalifa, “In the Cut”, in Kush & Orange Juice:]
  • Bitch I'm out, catch me chillin' in the cut. Me and my homies swag it out in the cut. It's a party going down in the cut. [2012, Honey Cocaine, In The Cut:]
  • Famous as fuck, but I’m still in the cut when they round up the troops. [2016, Drake, “Summer Sixteen"”:]
  • She got me stuck. Like a truck, deep mud, deep ruts, way out in the cut. She got me stuck. Even four-wheel drive won't work this time, yeah. [2021, Redferrin, "Stuck"]
  • We're off the beaten path from River Street downtown. So, it's, we're back here in the cut. [2023 January 9th, Santana Hannah, in JOLLY, "Brits try REAL Southern Fried Chicken for the first time!", YouTube, 11:27]

Etymology

1. 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”).
2. Cf. 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. See: Old Norse Nouns '*kytja', French Nouns 'couteau', Latin Nouns 'culter', Swedish Nouns 'kåta', Icelandic Nouns 'kuta', Old Norse Nouns 'kuti'.

Verbs referencing "cut"

English Nouns katsu.