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Cuttle

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Captain Cuttle. An eccentric, kind-hearted sailor, simple as a child, credulous of every tale, and generous as the sun. He is immortalised by the motto selected by Notes and Queries, “When found make a note of.” (Dickens: Dombey and Son.)

“Unfortunately, I neglected Captain Cuttle’s advice, and am now unable to find it.”—W. H. Husk: Notes and Queries.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Cut Capers (To)
Cut it Short
Cut of his Jib
Cut Short
Cut up Rough (To)
Cuthbert
Cuthbert Bede
Cutler’s Poetry
Cutpurse
Cutter’s Law
Cuttle
Cutty
Cutty Pipe
Cutty Stool
Cwt
Cyanean Rocks (The)
Cycle
Cyclic Poets
Cyclopædia
Cyclopean
Cyclopean Masonry