Etymograph

English

supercut

From super- + cut.

Formed from super- + cut

Proto-Germanic *kutjaną ‘to cut’

Old Norse *kytja

Middle English cutten

English cut

Today it means

noun A montage of short video clips, usually from a film or TV series, illustrating a particular repeated element such as a word or phrase.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “supercut”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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