Meanings
plural cutie patooties
- USslangAn adorable and attractive person.
Like, yeah! We love Usher. We decided to focus on his cutie-patootie face instead of his bodacious body.
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 733 more examples
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 February, Vicki Iovine, “Sleepy Time”, in The Girlfriends’ Guide to Toddlers […] (A Perigee Book), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 181The 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).
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 86He'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).
2018, Marnie Blue, “Acknowledgements”, in Mistletoe Kisses, Fort Collins, Colo.: Entangled Publishing, →ISBNSynonyms: cutie pie
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn adorable and attractive person.
Origin
Compound of cutie (“cute person”) + patootie (“attractive woman; girlfriend”), probably chosen because the words rhyme.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch schattepatat
- schattepatatadorable and attractive person
Finnish söpöliini
- söpöliiniadorable and attractive person
Polish słodziak
- słodziakadorable and attractive person
Swedish gulleplutt
- gullepluttadorable and attractive person
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with cutie patootie
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