curt

Etymology

From the Latin curtus (“shortened”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɜː(ɹ)t/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

Adjective

curt (comparative curter, superlative curtest)

1. Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “XVIII and XIX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

     Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. [...] Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it [...]

2. Short or concise.

Verb

curt (third-person singular simple present curts, present participle curting, simple past and past participle curted)

1. (obsolete, rare) To cut, cut short, shorten.
   • Sylvester (1618)

     Curting thy life, hee takes thy Card away.

Anagrams

• crut

Etymology

From Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.

Adjective

curt (feminine curta, masculine plural curts, feminine plural curtes)

1. short

Etymology

From Latin curtus.

Adjective

curt m (feminine curte, masculine plural curts, feminine plural curtis)

1. short

Adjective

curt

1. short

Etymology

From Latin curtus.

Adjective

curt m (feminine singular curta, masculine plural cursc, feminine plural curtes)

1. brief, short

Noun

curt f (oblique plural curz or curtz, nominative singular curt, nominative plural curz or curtz)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of cort