Citified vs Cutified - What's the difference?
citified | cutified |
(citify)
Characteristic of the sophisticated customs or dress associated with city life.
* 1794 , quoted in 2009, Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 ,
* 1922 , , The Elementary school journal , Volume 23,
* 1928 , The Mimes of the Courtesans (English translation of a work by Lucian):
* 1931 , Russell Lord, Men of Earth'', 1975 reprint edition, ''American Farmers and the Rise of Agribusiness ,
* 1943 , Ann Chidester, No longer fugitive , page 215:
* 1982 , Robert John Smith, Ella Lury Wiswell, The Women of Suye Mura ,
(cutify)
To form skin.
* 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,
(informal) To make cute.
* , quoted in Alex Witchel, Girls Only: Sleepovers, Squabbles, Tuna Fish, and Other Facts of Family Life , Simon and Schuster (2008), ISBN 0743254929, page 110,
As verbs the difference between citified and cutified
is that citified is past tense of citify while cutified is past tense of cutify.As an adjective citified
is characteristic of the sophisticated customs or dress associated with city life.citified
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- New York is less citified than Philadelphia.
- It was not much more citified than it was countrified.
- Isn't he handsome? Isn't he a man of the world? Isn't he citified ?
- As the countryside becomes more and more citified and farming more and more specialized, motorized and businesslike, I suppose that the farmer's mental scope and habits will become more like mine.
- But he's citified and holds his cup just right and never has to think about it.
- She is a citified' young woman, and the more ' citified people are the more difficult it is to ask and get answers to personal questions.
cutified
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Verb
(head)cutify
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .William Dwight Whitney, The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language ,]The Century Company (1889), [http://books.google.com/books?id=ebECAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1416&dq=cutify page 1416.
Verb
(en-verb)]LaBarre Printing Company, [http://books.google.com/books?id=oI4BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA281&dq=cutify page 281,
- A small area of the fundus protruded between the lips of the wound and was left to cutify .
Etymology 2
From , perhaps with influence from beautify.Verb
(en-verb)- “ , burlesque was all cutified , not the way it really was, down and dirty, men with raw liver and milk bottles masturbating. […]”