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etymology of "cute"
Oct. 13th, 2003 01:01 amI forget who was wondering. It is in fact Latin, and it's nothing I'd have guessed:
cute, a.
colloq.
[Aphetic form of ACUTE a. 7.]
1. Acute, clever, keen-witted, sharp, shrewd.
2. (orig. U.S. colloq. and Schoolboy slang.) Used of things in same way as CUNNING a. 6. Now in general colloq. use, applied to people as well as things, with the sense ‘attractive, pretty, charming’; also, ‘attractive in a mannered way’.
cute, a.
colloq.
[Aphetic form of ACUTE a. 7.]
1. Acute, clever, keen-witted, sharp, shrewd.
2. (orig. U.S. colloq. and Schoolboy slang.) Used of things in same way as CUNNING a. 6. Now in general colloq. use, applied to people as well as things, with the sense ‘attractive, pretty, charming’; also, ‘attractive in a mannered way’.
