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curt

adj
/kɝt/US/kɜːt/UK

Etymology

From the Latin curtus (“shortened”). Cognate with Dutch kort, German kurz, Galician curto, French court, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short.

  1. borrowed from curtus — “shortened”

Definitions

  1. Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.

  2. Short or concise.

  3. To cut, cut short, shorten.

    • Curting thy life, hee takes thy Card away.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A short form of the male given name Curtis

    2. A male given name from the Germanic languages, an anglicized spelling of Kurt

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at curt. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at curt. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at curt

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA