cutre.
of bad quality, poor, shoddy
Meaning & usage
of bad quality, poor, shoddy
shabby, seedy, cheesy
¡Pero qué lugar más cutre al que me has traído!
stingy, small-minded, scrounger, mean
Tus amigos son unos cutres. Siempre que vamos a un bar dicen que se les ha olvidado la cartera.
Where this word comes from
Uncertain, but most likely from kurtí (“short, small”) from Caló (a Romani-Iberian dialect), first introduced in Spanish in the 20th century as a Madrid slang.
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