cutre
Spanish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkutɾe/ [ˈku.t̪ɾe]
- Rhymes: -utɾe
- Syllabification: cu‧tre
Adjective
cutre (plural cutres) (colloquial)
- (of a thing) of bad quality, poor
- Synonym: pobre
- (of a place) shabby, seedy, cheesy
- Synonyms: sucio, mugriento, abandonado, descuidado
- ¡Pero qué lugar más cutre al que me has traído!
- The place you've brought me to is so shabby!
- (person) stingy, small-minded, scrounger, mean
- Synonyms: mezquino, pobre de espíritu, tacaño
- Tus amigos son unos cutres. Siempre que vamos a un bar dicen que se les ha olvidado la cartera.
- Your friends are mean and stingy, every time we go out to a pub they say they have forgotten their wallet.
Related terms
- cutredad
- cutrez
Further reading
- “cutre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014