Definition of "curt"

curt

/kɝt/

adjective
comparative curter, superlative curtest
1. Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
  Quotations
  Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. [...] Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it […]
  1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “XVIII and XIX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins
2. Short or concise.
verb
third-person singular simple present curts, present participle curting, simple past and past participle curted
1. (obsolete, rare) To cut, cut short, shorten.
  Quotations
  Curting thy life, hee takes thy Card away.
  1608, [Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas], “(please specify the page)”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611