cutie pie

plural cutie pies · alternative cutie-pie · alternative cutiepie · alternative qt 3.14 · alternative QT 3.14

1. USA cute person, often female.

   Her daughter is such a cutie pie!

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

   1916 November 28, Dopey Dan, “Twixt Love and Safety”, in The Washington Herald, page 14

   “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.”

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

   Nothin' but a cutie pie / Who makes me feel so good / You're my cutie pie

   1982, “Cutie Pie”, performed by One Way

   Synonyms: cutie patootie

2. slangA small hand-held radiation meter.

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

   2014, Mary Alice Statkiewicz Sherer, Paula J. Visconti, E. Russell Ritenour, Workbook for Radiation Protection in Medical Radiography, page 23

   Synonyms: Geiger counter, Geiger-Müller counter