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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
  1. Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
    Our reaction to cute attributes, like fair, dainty, round and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
  2. Generally attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
    Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.
    What a cute movie.
    This year the burly rugby team was in greater demand with softies then their normaly cuter colleagues from non-macho societies at the benefit slave auction, because they looked as cute as funny wearing nothing else then a cute teddy-bear tied to a jockstrap.
  3. Affected or contrived to charm; precious; cutesy.
    The actor's performance was too cute for me. All that mugging to the audience killed the humor.
  4. Mentally keen or discerning; mincingly clever, shrewd; see Template:Term.
    Don't get cute with me, boy!




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