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Cutify vs Citify - What's the difference?

cutify | citify |

In informal|lang=en terms the difference between cutify and citify

is that cutify is (informal) to make cute while citify is (informal) to make more like a city person.

As verbs the difference between cutify and citify

is that cutify is to form skin or cutify can be (informal) to make cute while citify is (informal) to become more like or more in the character of a city.

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)
  • 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, ] 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)
  • (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,
    • “ , burlesque was all cutified , not the way it really was, down and dirty, men with raw liver and milk bottles masturbating. […]”

    References

    citify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (informal) To become more like or more in the character of a city.
  • * 1946 , , Volume 192,
    • The metropolis grows like a tree in concentric circles, rim upon rim, the inner rings hardening or "citifying " and the outer bark expanding or "urbanizing."
  • * 1970 , , Hearings, reports and prints of the House Committee on Appropriations ,
    • The United States of America is not yet a jungle of metropolitan areas, but we are citifying at a very rapid pace.
  • * 2010 , Dr Dan Budenz, Analyzing Monsters - Family Cures: The Drew Peterson Saga , page 105,
    • My wife and I happened to have fought with authorities to address the extremely dangerous roads throughout this citifying rural community.
  • (slang) To make more like or more in the character of a city.
  • * 1975 , Robert Lipsyte, Sportsworld: an American Dreamland ,
    • Harness racing was being citified by crooked lawyers.
  • * 1989 , David R. Kinsley, The Goddesses' Mirror: Visions of the Divine from East and West ,
    • In her role as a citifying presence, Athena often is associated with political structures, the administration of justice, and the arts of persuasion, such as rhetoric.
  • * 1995 , , Volume 187,
    • "But these newcomers are citifying' the rural atmosphere." They're also ' citifying prices.
  • (informal) To make more like a city person.
  • * 2005 , John Michael Archer, Citizen Shakespeare: freemen and aliens in the language of the plays , page 97:
    • In taking his gage from a prostitute in the London stews, he appropriates in a burlesque mode the faltering aristocratic rituals that Richard and his father try to manage. He citifies them, or reveals how they have already been invaded by city modes of violence and desire in the history world.
  • * 2007 , Matthew Desmond, On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters ,
    • I reacted to my well-to-do peers, with the help of my roommate and best friend John, by sissifying and citifying them.

    Synonyms

    * urbanize

    Antonyms

    * countrify