cute

Sharp, crafty, apparently from acute; but some insist that it is the Anglo-Saxon word cuth, rather meaning certain, known, or familiar.

← cut a stick, to × cuth →

Cute
·adj Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
cute
(An abbreviation of acute.) Sharp; cunning; acute. It is provincial in various parts of England. In ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
cute
sharp, adroit, clever. North. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose