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cutify en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈkjuːtɪfaɪ/
  • kyo͞oʹ tĭ fī

Etymology

From Latin cutis (“skin”) and faciō (“make”).

Meanings

  1. To form skin.
    • A small area of the fundus protruded between the lips of the wound and was left to cutify. 1898 May, T. L. MacDonald, “The Correction of Inveterate Hystero-Recto-Vesico-Ptosis by Laparotomy, and Implantation of the Uterus within the Abdominal Incision”, in The Hahnemannian Monthly, volume 33, LaBarre Printing Company, page 281:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
cutified Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cutified Tense=Past lexicographic
cutifying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cutifies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Translations (3)

nl huidvorming (To form skin) · nl wonddichting (To form skin) · ms mengulit (To form skin)

cutify en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈkjuːtɪfaɪ/
  • kyo͞oʹ tĭ fī

Etymology

From cute + -ify, perhaps with influence from beautify.

Meanings

  1. (informal) To make cute.
    • a. 2008, June Havoc, quoted in Alex Witchel, Girls Only: Sleepovers, Squabbles, Tuna Fish, and Other Facts of Family Life, Simon and Schuster (2008), →ISBN, page 110, “Vaudeville wouldn’t even eat in the same restaurants or stay in the same hotels as burlesque,” she was saying now. “There really were classes of people. And vaudeville was very proud, extremely proud. In Gypsy, burlesque was all cutified, not the way it really was, down and dirty, men with raw liver and milk bottles masturbating. […]”

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
cutified Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cutified Tense=Past lexicographic
cutifying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cutifies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Translations (1)

nl verschattigen (To make cute)