different between cutify vs citify

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kju?t?fa?/; enPR: kyo?o? t? f?

Etymology 1

From Latin cutis (“skin”) and faci? (“make”).

Verb

cutify (third-person singular simple present cutifies, present participle cutifying, simple past and past participle cutified)

1. To form skin.
   • 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,^[2] LaBarre Printing Company, page 281,

     A small area of the fundus protruded between the lips of the wound and was left to cutify.

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Etymology 2

From cute +? -ify, perhaps with influence from beautify.

Verb

cutify (third-person singular simple present cutifies, present participle cutifying, simple past and past participle cutified)

1. (informal) To make cute.
   • a. 2008, June Havoc, quoted in Alex Witchel, Girls Only: Sleepovers, Squabbles, Tuna Fish, and Other Facts of Family Life,^[3] 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. […]”

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English

Alternative forms

• cityfy

Etymology

From city +? -fy.

Pronunciation

Verb

citify (third-person singular simple present citifies, present participle citifying, simple past and past participle citified)

1. (intransitive, informal) To become more like or more in the character of a city.
   • 1946, Harper's Magazine, Volume 192,

     The metropolis grows like a tree in concentric circles, rim upon rim, the inner rings hardening or "citifying" and the outer bark expanding or "urbanizing."
2. (transitive, slang) To make more like or more in the character of a city.
   • 1995, National Geographic Society, National Geographic, Volume 187,

     "But these newcomers are citifying the rural atmosphere." They're also citifying prices.

3. (transitive, informal) To make more like a city person.

Synonyms

• urbanize

Antonyms

• countrify