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Definition: Cuttle |
CuttleNoun1. Ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cuttle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cuttle Captain Cuttle. An eccentric, kind-hearted sailor, simple as a child, credulous of every tale, and generous as the sun. He is immortalised by the motto selected by Notes and Queries, "When found make a note of." (Dickens: Dombey and Son.) "Unfortunately, I neglected Captain Cuttle's advice, and am now unable to find it.' - W H Husk: Notes and Queries. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CuttleSynonym: cuttlefish (n). (additional references) |
| "Cuttle" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Cuttle" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "cuttle": Cuttle bone. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cuttle": cuttle-fish, cuttle-shell. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cuttle fish | 25 |
cuttle | 5 |
bone cuttle | 4 |
cuttle fish live | 2 |
amber cuttle | 2 |
cuttle fish fish marine | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cuttle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الحبار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Сепия. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tafle, lægge i slag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vouwen (fold), afleggen (abandon, cover, go through, layer, pass through, put off, take off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | välimerensepia (Ross' cuttle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Seiche (cuttlefish), plier, déposer en plis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | tafeln (boards, feast), in Falten legen (fold, pleat), abtafeln. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διπλώνω (double, fold, furl, lap, plait, ply). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Tintahal (calamary, cuttlefish, polyp, sepia, squid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | piegare (bend, bow, crook, diffract, droop, duck, flex, fold, give in, incline, inflect, lap, subdue, tend, tilt, tuck, turn, yield). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | blekksprut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uttlecay preguear (frill, gather, goffer, kilt, plait, pleat, pucker, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, shirr), lula (cuttlefish, sepia, squid). (various references) Каракатица. (various references) gibneach (cuttle-fish: *gebbi-), fadhbhag (cuttle-fish). (various references) sipina kost (canary-stone), sipa (cuttlefish, sepia). (various references) plegar la tela al ancho. (various references) Bläck (ink). (various references) mai mực (cuttle-bone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cuttle": cuttlebone, cuttlebones, cuttled, cuttlefish, cuttlefishes, cuttles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cuttle": scuttle. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cuttle": scuttlebutt, scuttlebutts, scuttled, scuttles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cutlet. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: culet. | |
-2 letters: celt, clue, cult, cute, luce, lute, tule. | |
-3 letters: cel, cue, cut, ecu, let, leu, tel, tet, tut. | |
-4 letters: el, et, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: clutter, cuittle, culotte, cutlets, cuttled, cuttles, lettuce, scuttle. | |
+2 letters: clutters, cluttery, cuittled, cuittles, culottes, cultrate, cuttable, lettuces, octuplet, scuttled, scuttles. | |
+3 letters: autotelic, cluttered, cultivate, fluctuate, octuplets, reluctant, reluctate, truculent, unclutter. | |
+4 letters: articulate, auscultate, capitulate, catapulted, cluttering, colatitude, contextual, courtliest, cultivated, cultivates, cuttlebone, cuttlefish, fluctuated, fluctuates, reluctated, reluctates, reticulate, scutellate, tentacular, testicular, turtleback, turtleneck, unathletic, unclutters. | |
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