curt
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
curt/kɜːt/
▶adjective rudely brief.
– derivatives
curtly adverb,
curtness noun.
curtly adverb,
curtness noun.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘short, shortened’): from L. curtus ‘cut short, abridged’.
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