cutering adj NEng obs Cf catering adj, kittering adv, quartering adv
Crooked, hence fig, muddled up; bad-tempered.
1870 Cooke in Lippincott’s Mag. Lit. Sci. Educ. 5.330/2 CT, I never see furrows run like them on that hill-lot—they’re all cuterin’. Oughter be ashamed on’t. 1885 Cooke Deacon’s Week 17 CT, Come around Friday I got back to the store. I ’d kind o’ left it to the boys the early part of the week, and things was a little cuterin’, but I did have sense not to tear round and use sharp words so much as common. 1894 Richards Narcissa 77 ME, “Mebbe I used to be a little cuterin’, sometimes—though you did try me. 1911 Richards On Board 216 ME, Many’s the time I’ve got straightened out, when things has been a mite cuterin’, just lookin’ at the sun rise,—or set, as might be,—and takin’ it by and large.