Masculine

cutre

  1. (colloquial, feminine, masculine) of bad quality, poor
  2. (colloquial, feminine, masculine) shabby, seedy, cheesy
  3. (colloquial, feminine, masculine, person) stingy, small-minded, scrounger, mean

Frequency

28k
Hyphenated as
cu‧tre
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkutɾe/
Etymology

Uncertain, but most likely from kurtí (“short, small”) from Caló (a Romani-Iberian dialect), first introduced in Spanish in the 20th century as a Madrid slang.

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