"cut up nasty" meaning in English

See cut up nasty in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: cuts up nasty [present, singular, third-person], cutting up nasty [participle, present], cut up nasty [participle, past], cut up nasty [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|cut<,,cut> up nasty}} cut up nasty (third-person singular simple present cuts up nasty, present participle cutting up nasty, simple past and past participle cut up nasty)
  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) To become angry; to make a fuss. Tags: colloquial, idiomatic Synonyms: cut up rough
    Sense id: en-cut_up_nasty-en-verb-FmyjfBN4

Download JSON data for cut up nasty meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cuts up nasty",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cutting up nasty",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cut up nasty",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cut up nasty",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cut<,,cut> up nasty"
      },
      "expansion": "cut up nasty (third-person singular simple present cuts up nasty, present participle cutting up nasty, simple past and past participle cut up nasty)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "14 August 2013, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian",
          "text": "They are Churchillian theme parks of red pillar boxes, fish and chips and warm beer. But they want the smooth without the rough. When the neighbours cut up nasty, they demand that those whose taxes protect them should send soldiers, diplomats and lawyers to their aid.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become angry; to make a fuss."
      ],
      "id": "en-cut_up_nasty-en-verb-FmyjfBN4",
      "links": [
        [
          "angry",
          "angry"
        ],
        [
          "fuss",
          "fuss"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, idiomatic) To become angry; to make a fuss."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cut up rough"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cut up nasty"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cuts up nasty",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cutting up nasty",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cut up nasty",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cut up nasty",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cut<,,cut> up nasty"
      },
      "expansion": "cut up nasty (third-person singular simple present cuts up nasty, present participle cutting up nasty, simple past and past participle cut up nasty)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "14 August 2013, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian",
          "text": "They are Churchillian theme parks of red pillar boxes, fish and chips and warm beer. But they want the smooth without the rough. When the neighbours cut up nasty, they demand that those whose taxes protect them should send soldiers, diplomats and lawyers to their aid.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become angry; to make a fuss."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "angry",
          "angry"
        ],
        [
          "fuss",
          "fuss"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, idiomatic) To become angry; to make a fuss."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "cut up rough"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cut up nasty"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-03-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-03-01 using wiktextract (68773ab and 5f6ddbb). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.