• (GA) IPA: /kɝt/
• (RP) IPA: /kɜːt/

curt (comparative curter, superlative curtest)

1. Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.

   Synonyms: brusque

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “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.

• French: abrupt, sommaire
• German: brüsk, knapp, kurzangebunden, barsch, schroff
• Russian: отрывистый

• German: kurz, kurzgefasst
• Russian: лаконичный
• Spanish: corto

curt (curts, present participle curting; past and past participle curted)

1. (obsolete, rare) To cut, cut short, shorten.

   • Curting thy life, hee takes thy Card away.

• shirt
• short
• skirt

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