Meanings
plural patooties · alternative patoot
- USdatedslangAn attractive woman; also, a girlfriend.
… 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 …
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 - USslangThe buttocks.
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.
2002, Pleasant Gehman, The Underground Guide to Los Angeles, Manic D Press, →ISBNSynonyms: 'tocks, arse, arse cheeks, ass, ass cheeks, back, backside, batty
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Origin
Possibly a variant of potato; compare uses like hot patootie (similar to hot potato) and sweet patootie (sweet potato). 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.
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patootie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/patootie
“patootie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/patootie. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “patootie,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/patootie.
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