cutie pie

See also: cutie-pie

English

Alternative forms

• cutie-pie, cutiepie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːti ˌpaɪ/

• Audio (AU):

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Noun

cutie pie (plural cutie pies)

1. (chiefly US) A cute person, often female.

   Synonym: cutie patootie

   Her daughter is such a cutie pie!

   • 1916 November 28, Dopey Dan, “Twixt Love and Safety”, in The Washington Herald‎^[1], page 14:

     Not a chance, Cutie-Pie! I'm still in th' hands o' my Oculist!

   • 1933, Dorothy Wayne [pseudonym; Noel Everingham Sainsbury], Dorothy Dixon and the Double Cousin‎^[2]:

     “Huh! The story book says ‘little boys’ belong in that category. Come, Bill, out with it!”
     “Well, then, cutie pie,—Uncle Michael is a secret service man.”

2. (slang) A small hand-held radiation meter.
   • 2014, Mary Alice Statkiewicz Sherer, Paula J. Visconti, E. Russell Ritenour, Workbook for Radiation Protection in Medical Radiography, page 23:

     Most hospitals stock cutie pies to monitor radiation contamination levels during an emergency.

Translations

a cute person

• Finnish: söpöläinen (fi)
• German: Süßer m, Süße (de) f
• Polish: słodziak m
• Russian: ла́почка (ru) f (lápočka), пу́псик (ru) m (púpsik), мила́шка (ru) f (miláška), ду́шечка (ru) f (dúšečka) (to a girl)
• Spanish: (male) papi chulo m, lindura m or f
• Swedish: sötnos (sv) c, sötis (sv) c

a small hand-held radiation meter

Further reading

• radiation meter pictured
• Jonathon Green (2024) “cutie-pie n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

• Peucetii