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Posted: 05 August 2002 05:31 AM   [ Ignore ]
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Is there a word that means "to cause to take on the aspect of cuteness" ??  I have a tendency to just invent words for situations like these when I’m not sure that one already exists… perhaps cutenize?  or cutify (cutefy)?  We could use a prefix instead… like encute or something…

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Posted: 06 August 2002 04:58 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Well, as far as making something cute goes, you could always try prettify, beautify, doll up, glamorize, or even (yes!) cutify. Cutify is informal and I didn’t find it in some of my dictionaries, but I did find it in my thesaurus, so go ahead and use it. Hope this is somewhat helpful.

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Posted: 07 August 2002 01:06 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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If we’re aiming for neologisms, I nominate "adorabilitate".

Brad

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Posted: 07 August 2002 07:32 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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Thanks all!  I’ll use adorabilitate for my linguistically enhanced conversations, and cutify for those unfortunate non-WOTD subscribers    ;)

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