She says that when a woman describes a guy as cute, she really means she’d like to throw him on the floor and tear his clothes off. While I have no objection at all to being thrown down and forcibly disrobed by the right person (in fact I admire the sentiment!), it seems to me that she’s misusing the word. Merriam-Webster gives “2 : attractive or pretty especially in a dainty or delicate way” as the only relevant definition. Dainty? I don’t think so!
She should say “hot” or “sexy” or something like that. “Cute” is for bunnies!
I agree with threebunnymama
I always call guys either cute or yummy
Neither label sounds very macho, both very girly, but it means the same thing to me as “sexy” or “hot”
Just MHO
Well, I’ve gotta disagree. I use “cute” to describe adorable boy-next-doors types - not the hot and sexy take-me-now guys. But that is just me, so I wouldn’t take it personally rjk… the majority of women would mean it as a compliment.
I always interpreted the word “adorable” as a VERY good sign … or that’s how I probably would interpret it if women ever used it to describe me. Kinda rare.
3b mama and Kitty, I see the distinction, but there’s way too much room for confusion. Nobody could get confused by something like “Omigod! He’s so hot!!!”
I just thought I’d see what others think, flyboy. I’m not really complaining, exactly.
Living Dead Girl and Arden, how you doin’?
Elenfair, you brought it on yourself. And if I beat you to the bathroom, too bad for you. “Cute” was bad enough!
And last, Zyada, you’d better not use any of those words! I’ll have to run off with LDG or Arden!
hmmm…cute, in my opinion, only applies to males that are young and look it. Any male over 30 (or even a mature looking male in his 20’s) can’t be cute. Males of any age can be “hot” but older ones can’t be cute, nor can younger ones be “handsome”.
Actually, the same is pretty much true for females too. Were someone so inclined to think I was attractive, I think they’d use cute rather than beautiful, since I look a lot younger than I am. Jewel is cute in the “you were meant for me” video, Audrey Hepburn was beautiful in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and both were the same age at the time of the tapings…
With reference to guys, “cute”, for me, is just an adjective that means attractive, without being specific. As in, “So who was that cute guy I saw you with last night?” More specific terms would be “beautiful”, “hot,” “gorgeous”, and “handsome”, in ascending order of machismo. However, any of these terms can be applied to any man on second reference. (As in, once you’ve established that Nagisa Kaworu is beautiful, you can then describe him as hot, gorgeous, or handsome without being mistaken.)
Note, too, that “cute” doesn’t work if it’s modified. I wouldn’t usually say, “He’s sooooooo cute,” or “I wish I were cuter”. I’d use one of the more specific adjectives listed above (“He’s sooooooo beautiful.”)
