Word: 'cute' • Extended Annotations

cute

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Ancestral Lore

Ancestral Lore of cute

1731, "clever, sharp, smart"
short for acute

(informal sense of "pretty" is by 1834)

cute adjective

attractive or pretty especially in a childish, youthful, or delicate way
clever or shrewd often in an underhanded manner
obviously straining for effect

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The primary socio-cultural (pop) usage of the word cute is a thorough ☣ perversion of the original sense ("clever, sharp, smart"), but the original meaning does survive.

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~☉~	lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
⚜	classic definition
☣	artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense

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