Cuttle

Definition: Cuttle

Cuttle

Noun

1. Ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell.

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: Cuttle

Synonym: 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

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.

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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

Portuguese		preguear (frill, gather, goffer, kilt, plait, pleat, pucker, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, shirr), lula (cuttlefish, sepia, squid). (various references)

Russian		Каракатица. (various references)

Scottish		gibneach (cuttle-fish: gebbi-), fadhbhag* (cuttle-fish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sipina kost (canary-stone), sipa (cuttlefish, sepia). (various references)

Spanish		plegar la tela al ancho. (various references)

Swedish		Bläck (ink). (various references)

Vietnamese		mai mực (cuttle-bone). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation 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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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.

Cuttle

Definition: Cuttle

Cuttle

Noun

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Synonym: Cuttle

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Modern Translation: Cuttle

Arabic

Bulgarian

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Dutch

Finnish

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German

Greek

Hungarian

Italian

Norwegian

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Russian

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Serbo-Croatian

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Anagrams: Cuttle

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