swear like a cutter

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Pronunciation

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Verb

swear like a cutter (third-person singular simple present swears like a cutter, present participle swearing like a cutter, simple past swore like a cutter, past participle sworn like a cutter)

  1. (archaic, simile) Synonym of swear like a trooper
    • 2015, Jo Ann Ferguson, A Model Marriage:
      Patrick swore like a cutter as Antonia rushed to the minister as if he were about to rescue her from all evil. Mayhap she thought that was so, but the minister was frozen like Lot's wife.
    • 2017, Stanley Campbell, The Legend of Chip: The Legend Begins:
      Shouting at the top of his lungs and swearing like a cutter, Chip raged at the voices which were shoving him to the brink.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary