Cutify

//ˈkjuːtɪfaɪ// verb, slang

verb, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To form skin.

    "A small area of the fundus protruded between the lips of the wound and was left to cutify."

  2. 2
    To make cute. informal

    "a. 2008, June Havoc, quoted in Alex Witchel, Girls Only: Sleepovers, Squabbles, Tuna Fish, and Other Facts of Family Life, Simon and Schuster (2008), →ISBN, page 110, “Vaudeville wouldn’t even eat in the same restaurants or stay in the same hotels as burlesque,” she was saying now. “There really were classes of people. And vaudeville was very proud, extremely proud. In Gypsy, burlesque was all cutified, not the way it really was, down and dirty, men with raw liver and milk bottles masturbating. […]”"

Example

More examples

"A small area of the fundus protruded between the lips of the wound and was left to cutify."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin cutis (“skin”) and faciō (“make”).

Etymology 2

From cute + -ify, perhaps with influence from beautify.

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