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say it: kurt
curt is an adjective meaning "marked by rude or peremptory shortness". It carries 2 recorded senses.
marked by rude or peremptory shortness
“try to cultivate a less brusque manner”
“a curt reply”
“the salesgirl was very short with him”
brief and to the point; effectively cut short
“a crisp retort”
“a response so curt as to be almost rude”
“the laconic reply; `yes'”
“short and terse and easy to understand”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for curt come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.