| 词汇 | cute |
| 词源 | cute. First recorded in 1731 as a shortening of acute, in its sense of “keenly discerning or shrewd,” cute over the next cen- tury somehow acquired its present meaning of attractive or pretty. Today the word is also used to mean contrived or overly precious. |
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