Meanings
cutify1
present singular third person cutifies · participle present cutifying · participle past cutified · past cutified
- To form skin.
A small area of the fundus protruded between the lips of the wound and was left to cutify.
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, page 281
cutify2
present singular third person cutifies · participle present cutifying · participle past cutified · past cutified
- informalTo make cute.
1 more example
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. […]”
Origin
cutify · verb
- Latincutis“skin”
- Englishcutify
From Latin cutis (“skin”) and faciō (“make”).
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →cutify · verb
From cute + -ify, perhaps with influence from beautify.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch huidvorming, wonddichting
- huidvormingTo form skin
- wonddichtingTo form skin
- verschattigenTo make cute
Malay mengulit
- mengulitTo form skin
Cite this entry
cutify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cutify
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