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Re:When Too Cute Is Too Much, the Brain Can Get Aggressive by DoreenMichele on Monday December 31, 2018 @09:29PM (#18798545)
We have expressions like "I love you so much, I could just eat you up." The term "rough housing" may be the closest we get, but I don't think it's generally understood to be associated with cute aggression.

There's also the trope "I'll hug him and squeeze him and rub his fur backwards and call him George" which is a reference to an old Bugs Bunny cartoon.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jPdHaNr0OAY

Related: The Spanish have a word for this.

https://www.lizettegreco.com/roberto/nervio.html

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Re:When Too Cute Is Too Much, the Brain Can Get Aggressive by masonic on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @06:31AM (#18799784) 

   a reference to an old Bugs Bunny cartoon
Which, in turn, was a reference to Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men".
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Re:When Too Cute Is Too Much, the Brain Can Get Aggressive by kweinber on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @07:00AM (#18799863)
Which is a book where a character kept killing cute things by being too aggressive with them...
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