cutie patootie
English edit
Etymology edit
From cutie (“cute person”) + patootie (“attractive woman; girlfriend”), probably chosen because the words rhyme.[1][2][3]
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkjuːti pəˈtuːti/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkjuti pəˈtuti/, [ˌkjuɾi pəˈtuɾi]
- Rhymes: -uːti
- Hyphenation: cut‧ie pa‧too‧tie
Noun edit
cutie patootie (plural cutie patooties)
- (chiefly US, slang) An adorable and attractive person.
- Synonym: (chiefly female) cutie pie
- 1999 February, Vicki Iovine, “Sleepy Time”, in The Girlfriends’ Guide to Toddlers […] (A Perigee Book), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 181:
- Early mornings are best approached as late nights in the toddler-training arena, especially if it's still dark outside. Explain, in ten words or less, that it's still sleep time and that Cutie Patootie needs to go back to bed for more rest.
- 1999 May, Marc S. Malkin, “Preview (Film): To Live and Love in the ‘So-called’ Years”, in James Collard, editor, Out, New York, N.Y.: Out Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 86:
- The British import Get Real (directed by Simon Shore) is the love story of two classmates—outcast Steven (total cutie patootie Ben Silverstone, above left with Charlotte Brittain) and Big Man on Campus John (Brad Gorton).
- 2004 December – 2005 January, “The 50 Hottest Rockers! More Cute Boys than You Can Shake a Stick at. Bigger, Better and … Pinker than Ever.”, in Brandon Holley, editor, Elle Girl, New York, N.Y.: Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 73:
- Like, yeah! We love Usher. We decided to focus on his cutie-patootie face instead of his bodacious body.
- 2018, Marnie Blue, “Acknowledgements”, in Mistletoe Kisses, Fort Collins, Colo.: Entangled Publishing, →ISBN:
- He's an excellent teacher, a dedicated police officer, and a bit of a cutie patootie, too (but don't tell my husband I said that).
Translations edit
adorable and attractive person
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See also edit
References edit
- ^ Compare “cutie, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
- ^ Compare “cutie, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.
- ^ Compare “patootie, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “patootie, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
