cutify
To form skin.
Verb
- 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...
Origin
From Latin cutis (“skin”) and faciō (“make”).
Forms
Verb informal
- To make cute.
- 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...
Origin
From cute + -ify, perhaps with influence from beautify.