patootie

English

Etymology

Possibly a variant of potato; compare uses like hot patootie (similar to hot potato) and sweet patootie (sweet potato).^[1]^[2] However, the adjectives hot and sweet are often collocated with words for the buttocks (regardless of which such noun), which limits the strength of that comparison; meanwhile, it is also possible that the similarity to the words toot and tooter may not be coincidental.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈtuːti/
(General American) IPA^(key): /pəˈtuti/, [-ɾi]
Rhymes: -uːti
Hyphenation: pa‧too‧tie
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

patootie (plural patooties) (chiefly US, slang)

The buttocks.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks
- 2002, Pleasant Gehman, The Underground Guide to Los Angeles, Manic D Press, →ISBN:
  I've seen an adorable unsigned punk band perform here, taken in some wickedawesome (all one word, of course) spoken word, and danced my patootie off to electro and synthcore djs. Yay.
(dated) An attractive woman; also, a girlfriend.
- 1920 April 10 – August 28, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, chapter 11, in The Little Warrior [Jill the Reckless], New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 8 October 1920, →OCLC, section 1, page 194:
  … He got on Forty-second Street, and he was kinda fresh from the start. At Sixty-sixth he came sasshaying^[sic] right down the car and said ‘Hello, patootie!’ Well, I drew myself up …

Alternative forms

patoot

Derived terms

References

^ “patootie, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “patootie, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
^ “patootie n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

[1] “patootie, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “patootie, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

[2] “patootie n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

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