English

Proper noun

Curt

1. A short form of the male given name Curtis
2. A male given name, an anglicized spelling of Kurt

Anagrams

• crut

Swedish

Proper noun

Curt

1. A male given name, a less common spelling of Kurt.

English

Adjective

curt ‎(comparative curter, superlative curtest)

1. Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter XVIII and XIX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

     Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. [...] Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it [...]

2. Short or concise.

Synonyms

• (terse to the point of being rude): abrupt, blunt, brusque

Translations

Derived terms

• curtly
• curtness
• curtail

Anagrams

• crut

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.

Adjective

curt m ‎(feminine curta, masculine plural curts, feminine plural curtes)

1. short

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin curtus.

Adjective

curt m ‎(feminine curte, masculine plural curts, feminine plural curtis)

1. short

Related terms

• scurtâ

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin curtus.

Adjective

curt m (feminine singular curta, masculine plural cursc, feminine plural curtes)

1. brief, short

Related terms

• scurter

Old French

Noun

curt f ‎(oblique plural curz or curtz, nominative singular curt, nominative plural curz or curtz)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of cort