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Meaning of cute

cute: It's a way of calling something or someone "cute, nice, with positive characteristics." It is an apheresis of acute ("sharp"), which until the eighteenth century was used in the sense of "intelligent, cunning" and then transformed into something more sentimental.; It is one of the common names of an American scavenger bird, in Honduras. It is also called American vulture, guala, redhead vulture, zopilote, cute, aura, jote, gallipavo, turkey chicken, headhead. Its scientific name is Cathartes aura and belongs to the family Cathartidae.; Affectionate expression to refer to the rear, tail, buttocks or derrien.