cuttle

Meaning

Noun

• Synonym of cuttlefish
• A knife.
• A foul-mouthed fellow.

Origin

• From Middle English cutil, codel, codul, from Old English cudele, a diminutive from Proto-Germanic *kudilǭ, from Proto-Germanic *kuddô + -ilǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- ("pouch, sack"), from *gew-, *gū-. Equivalent to cod + -le. Compare dialectal German Kudele, Norwegian kaule.
• From Middle English coutel, from Old French coutel, coltel, cultel, from Latin cultellus. See cutlass.