cute

Etymology
, originally “keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd” (1731). Meaning transferred to “pretty, fetching” by US students (slang). Meaning drifted further to describe the pleasing attraction to features usually possessed by the young.

Adjective

 * 1) Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
 * 2) Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
 * 3) Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
 * 4) Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
 * 5) Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
 * 6) * ca. 1850. Anonymous, "Turpin Hero" (broadside ballad, probably originally dating to 18th century)
 * Then being so very cute, He hid his money in his boot.
 * 1)  Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
 * 1) Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
 * 2) * ca. 1850. Anonymous, "Turpin Hero" (broadside ballad, probably originally dating to 18th century)
 * Then being so very cute, He hid his money in his boot.
 * 1)  Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
 * 1) * ca. 1850. Anonymous, "Turpin Hero" (broadside ballad, probably originally dating to 18th century)
 * Then being so very cute, He hid his money in his boot.
 * 1)  Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
 * 1)  Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
 * 1)  Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
 * 1)  Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
 * 1)  Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).

Usage notes
Though all the above usages are understood outside the United States and Canada, they are rarely used spontaneously except to characterize or parody American usage.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: oulik
 * American Sign Language: H@Chin-PalmBackFingerUp Flatten
 * Arabic: فَاتِن,, جَذَّاب
 * Hijazi Arabic: حِلو
 * Armenian:, , ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto:, aminda, , beleta
 * Faroese: søtur
 * Finnish:, , lutunen
 * French:
 * Georgian: საყვარელი, სასიამოვნო
 * German:, ,
 * Hawaiian: nani
 * Hebrew:, חמודה
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Icelandic:, snotur
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: sympathic, gratiose
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, キュート
 * Kapampangan: matimyas, katimyas na
 * Khmer: គួរឱ្យស្រឡាញ់
 * Korean: ,
 * Lao:
 * Latin: bellulum
 * Macedonian: симпатична
 * Malay: comel
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: swēte
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: bòidheach, stampa
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сладак
 * Latin:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovene: srčkan
 * Spanish:, , , , pituso,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tamil: அன்பான
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སྙིང་རྗེ་པོ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ми́лий, симпати́чний
 * Urdu: معصوم
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: זיס, באַחנט, חנעוודיק, באַטעמט


 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: عسول
 * South Levantine Arabic: أمور, أمورة
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto:, aminda, , beleta
 * French: ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hawaiian: uʻi
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: sympathic, gratiose
 * Irish: álainn, gleoite, galánta
 * Italian:
 * Kapampangan: matimyas
 * Latin: bellulus, bellula, bellulum
 * Old English: swēte
 * Polish: urzekający
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: bòidheach, stampa
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian: прива́бливий,, гарню́ній, гарне́нький, хороше́нький
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: זיס


 * Dutch:
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Irish: glic
 * Polish: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: кмітли́вий, розу́мний

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Adjective

 * 1)  cute, adorable
 * 2)  sweet, attractive (of a person, especially a prospective partner)
 * 1)  sweet, attractive (of a person, especially a prospective partner)
 * 1)  sweet, attractive (of a person, especially a prospective partner)

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  cutis, skin (of a person)

Adjective

 * , which is

Etymology
, accusative of. The expected result would have been in Romanian, but may have been influenced by  and.

Noun

 * 1) whetstone