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adjective

Cute adj.

Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning. (Colloq.)

Pleasantly attractive, in a delicate way; said of children, young ladies, pet animals and some objects, but seldom of adults; as, a cute child; a cute kitten; a cute little house; a cute statue.

Smart-alecky or impertinent; as, a cute remark.

Affectedly clever.

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Etymology of 'Cute'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cute" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Oh, isn't it cute?" said Kitty. "We'll build our cabin right here, and we'll play this is our water-power, and build a mill too. I'll be Mr. Brown, and you may be the ...

— Harper's Young People, September 21, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... so deft and gentle. Some of the women are beautiful, and all the young appeared to me to be well-formed. As for the babies! I washed two or three little piccaninnies when I was in the South, and the way they rolled their gorgeous eyes at me was "too cute," which means in ...

— The Story of My Life - Recollections and Reflections • Ellen Terry

... and, somehow or other, a little of everything, and all sort of things. My father was jest like myself, and swore, before I was born, that I should be born jest like him—and so I was. Never were two black peas more alike. He was a 'cute old fellow, and swore he'd make me so too—and so he did. You know how he did that?—now, I'll go a York shilling against a Louisiana bit, that you can't ...

— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms

... is as cute as a pet fox," said Peter Walsh. "You'd be hard set to keep anything from him that he ...

— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham

... soon be put in de jug (jail), if they didn't make us stretch hemp without trial. But a good thick coat of tar and feathers will become his style of beauty fust-rate; and if we uns ride him on a rail, he will dance a jig with his feet in de air and will look more cute than ary Injun you uns ever see daubed with his ...

— The Kentucky Ranger • Edward T. Curnick

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