Cute vs Cote - What's the difference?
cute | cote |
Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
Generally, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
Affected]] or contrived to charm; [[mince#Verb, mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
Mentally keen or discerning; clever; shrewd; see (acute).
A cottage or hut.
A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
* Milton
(obsolete) To quote.
To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
* Shakespeare
* 1825 , , The Talisman , A. and C. Black (1868), 37:
As an adjective cute
is possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.As a proper noun cote is
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English
(wikipedia)Adjective
(er)- Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
- Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.
- Emma is so damn cute .
- The actor's performance was too cute for me. All that mugging to the audience killed the humor.
- Don't get cute with me, boy!
- Cute trick, but can you do it consistently?
Derived terms
* cuteness * cutely * cutesy * cutie * cute as a button * cute hoorcote
English
Etymology 1
From the (etyl) cote, the feminine form of . Cognate to Dutch kot.Noun
(en noun)- Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes .
Synonyms
* shedEtymology 2
See quote.Verb
(cot)- (Udall)
Etymology 3
Probably related to (etyl) .Verb
(cot)- A dog cotes a hare.
- (Drayton)
- We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.
- [...]strength to pull down a bull——swiftness to cote an antelope.