cute
[kyoot]
- attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- appealing and delightful; charming: What a cute toy!
- affectedly or mincingly pretty or clever; precious: The child has acquired some intolerably cute mannerisms.
- mentally keen; clever; shrewd.
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- the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness: The young actress has a bad case of the cutes.
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- meet cute, Informal.
- (of a romantic couple) to meet for the first time in a charming or amusing way: In this type of movie the boy and girl always meet cute.
- Also meet-cute.a situation or occasion when potential romantic partners meet for the first time in a charming or amusing way: a classic Hollywood meet cute; his meet-cute with Jane in the bookstore.
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Origin of cute
First recorded in 1615–25; aphetic variant of acute
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Examples from the Web for cutest
Contemporary Examples
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Historical Examples
Gee, Doctor Parris, isn't he just the cutest dog you ever saw?
Old Mr. WileyFanny Greye La Spina
That girl of his is the cutest kid in Indiana, and I wouldn't do anything to hurt her.
Otherwise PhyllisMeredith Nicholson
But the cutest trick they learned was that of waiting on the table.
True Bear StoriesJoaquin Miller
"It's one of the cutest things of the kind I've seen," said the American.
For the Allinson HonorHarold Bindloss
That cart we are going to sleep in is just the cutest thing.
The Corner House Girls on a TourGrace Brooks Hill
cute
- appealing or attractive, esp in a pretty way
- mainly US informal sexually attractive
- informal affecting cleverness or prettiness
- clever; shrewd
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Word Origin
C18 (in the sense: clever): shortened from acute
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Word Origin and History for cutest
cute
adj.
1731, "clever," shortening of acute; informal sense of "pretty" is 1834, American English student slang. Related: Cuteness.
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