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cute | scute |

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 noun scute is

(zoology) a horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles.

cute

English

(wikipedia)

Adjective

(er)
  • 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.
    • Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
  • 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.
    Emma is so damn cute .
  • Affected]] or contrived to charm; [[mince#Verb, mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
    • 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!
  • Mentally keen or discerning; clever; shrewd; see (acute).
    • Cute trick, but can you do it consistently?

    Derived terms

    * cuteness * cutely * cutesy * cutie * cute as a button * cute hoor

    scute

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 71:
  • *:Then one afternoon, as he's stripping the scutes and hide from a shortnose sturgeon, an idea hits him.
  • (genetics) A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs
  • (obsolete) A small shield.
    • (Skelton)
  • (historical) An old French gold coin.

    • Synonyms

    * scutum

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