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"Cutty sark" is 18th-century Scots for "short chemise" or "short undergarment".〔("cutty(-ie) sark, a short chemise or undergarment" ), Dictionary of the Scots Language, accessed 21 May 2007〕 Hyphenated, Cutty-sark was a nickname given to the witch Nannie Dee, a fictional character created by Robert Burns in his ''Tam o' Shanter'', after the garment she wore. The figurehead of the tea clipper ''Cutty Sark'' is named after the character. ==Etymology== ''Cutty'' or ''cuttie'' (the diminutive form of ''cuttit'', from Early Middle English ''cutte'', ''kutte'', ''cute'' "ugly"〔, Dictionary of the Scots Language, accessed 21 May 2007〕 The earliest recorded literary usage of the term ''cutty sark'' (as opposed to older usage of the two separate words) is by Dougal Graham in c. 1779 (the year of his death): "A cutty sark of guide harn sheet, My mitter he pe spin, mattam."〔
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