Cute gifts for valentines day boyfriend shows grade level based on the word’s complexity. The child has acquired some intolerably cute mannerisms. The young actress has a bad case of the cutes.

WILL YOU SAIL OR STUMBLE ON THESE GRAMMAR QUESTIONS? Smoothly step over to these common grammar mistakes that trip many people up. Fill in the blank: I can’t figure out _____ gave me this gift. In this type of movie the boy and girl always meet cute. Why Didn’t Camille Dump Bill Cosby? Also found in: Thesaurus, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Clever or witty, especially in an impertinent or evasive way, as in falsely suggesting that one is ignorant about the matter at hand.

In this sense cute is first recorded in a dictionary published in 1731. Probably cute came to be used as a term of approbation for things demonstrating acuteness or ingenious design, and so it went on to develop its own sense of “pretty, fetching. Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc.