ETYM AS. cunnan to know, to be able. Related to Con, Can.
Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; SYN. cute.

Množina: cunnings

ETYM From Old Fren. hourd, hourt, barrier, palisade, of German or Dutch origin; cf. Dutch horde hurdle, fence, German horde, hürde; akin to Eng. hurdle. Related to Hurdle.
The act of one who hoards.

(1919-) US choreographer and dancer. He is recognized as the father of post-modernist, or experimental, dance. He liberated dance from its relationship with music, allowing it to obey its own dynamics.
Along with his friend and collaborator, composer John Cage, he introduced chance into the creative process, such as tossing coins to determine options. Influenced by Martha Graham, with whose company he was soloist 1939–45, he formed his own avant-garde dance company and school in New York 1953. His works include The Seasons 1947, Antic Meet 1958, Squaregame 1976, and Arcade 1985.
Cunningham worked closely with composers, such as Cage, and artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg, when staging his works; among them Septet 1953, Suite for Five 1956, Crises 1960, Winterbranch 1964, Scramble 1967, Signals 1970, and Sounddance 1974.

(air pilot) (1917-) British air ace of World War II. He was among the first pilots to be given airborne radar for night fighting. His successes with this led to his nickname “Cats-Eyes Cunningham”, a public relations stunt to conceal the fact that radar was in use.
(admiral) (1885-1962)
British admiral in World War II. He was commander in chief in the Mediterranean 1943–46, First Sea Lord 1946–48, and became admiral of the fleet in 1948.
In 1940 he assisted in the evacuation of Norway and, as Fourth Sea Lord in charge of supplies and transport 1941–43, prepared the way for the N African invasion in 1942.

(1883-1976) US photographer. Her early photographs were romantic but she gradually rejected pictorialism, producing clear and detailed plant studies 1922–29. With Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, she was a founder member of the “f/64” group which advocated precise definition. From the mid-1930s she concentrated on portraiture.

1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883-1963)
British admiral in World War II, commander in chief in the Mediterranean 1939–42, maintaining British control; as commander in chief of the Allied Naval Forces in the Mediterranean Feb–Oct 1943 he received the surrender of the Italian fleet. He then became First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff until 1946.

(1791-1835) English botanist and explorer in Australia whose explorations 1823–29 opened up stock routes to the NW of the E coast and located the valuable pastures of the Darling Downs.

Množina: Cunninghams

City in Kansas (USA).

(1852-1936)
Scottish writer, politician, and adventurer. He was the author of essays and short stories such as ‘Success’ 1902, ‘Faith’ 1909, ‘Hope’ 1910, and ‘Charity’ 1912. He wrote many travel books based on his experiences as a rancher in Texas and Argentina 1869–83, and as a traveler in Spain and Morocco 1893–98. He became the first president of the Scottish Labour Party in 1888 and the first president of the Scottish National Party in 1928.
While an MP 1886–92, he was jailed with the Socialist leader John Burns following an illegal assembly in Trafalgar Square.

In an attractive manner; SYN. cutely.

Množina: cunningnesses