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cuttystool

noun

Etymology

From cutty + stool.

  1. inherited from *stoh₂los✻
  2. inherited from *stōlaz✻ — “chair”
  3. inherited from *stōl✻
  4. inherited from stōl — “chair, seat, throne”
  5. inherited from stool
  6. compounded as cuttystool — “cutty + stool”

Definitions

  1. A low stool.

    • She's now nae mair Kate but Miss Dalrymple. Her auld cutty stool that she used at her wheel, Was flung by for her gilded sofa sae gaudy, Now she's arrayed in her silk and brocade, Ind brags о' her muff's and ruff's wi' ony lady.
    • And they who passed would see Alison trupling in her garden, speaking to herself like the ill wife she was, or sitting on a cutty-stool by the doorside, with her eyes on other than mortal sights.

  2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by…

    A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.

The neighborhood

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