cutie

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuti/, [-ɾi]
• Rhymes: -uːti
• Hyphenation: cut‧ie

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

English cute

English -ie

English cutie

From cute + -ie.

Noun

cutie (plural cuties)

1. A cute person or animal.
   • 2009, Sara Roahen, Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table, page 239:

     Before every visit, I'm convinced that the tourists will have used all the napkins, the pigeons will have roosted beneath the chairs, the sidewalk musicians will be playing classic rock, the servers will all be high school cuties […]

   • 2024 May 7, Cait Kelly, “Melbourne private school students expelled over ‘cruel’ spreadsheet rating female classmates”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Four students from Yarra Valley grammar in Ringwood, in Melbourne’s east, were suspended last week after it came to light they had made the list. It included photos of female students ranking them as “wifeys”, “cuties”, “mid”, “object”, “get out” and “unrapable”.

Usage notes

• Often used as a term of endearment.

Derived terms

• autocutie
• cutie patootie
• cutie pie
• nudie-cutie
• technocutie

Translations

cute person or animal

• Catalan: maco (ca) m, maca (ca) f
• Dutch: schatje (nl) n, schattigaard m
• Esperanto: beletulo
• Finnish: söpöläinen (fi), söpöliini (fi)
• French: mignon (fr) m
• German: Süßer m, Süße (de) f, Schatz (de) m
• Italian: tesorino m or f
• Persian: موش (fa) (muš)
• Polish: słodziak (pl) m
• Portuguese: gracinha f
• Romanian: drăguț (ro) m, drăguță (ro) f
• Russian: пу́псик (ru) m (púpsik), мила́шка (ru) f (miláška) (to a girl), прелесть (ru) f (prelestʹ)
• Spanish: guapo (es) m, guapa (es) f, cariño (es) m, tesoro (es) m
• Swedish: sötis (sv) c, sötnos (sv) c
• Turkish: şirin (tr), şipşirin (tr), yumurcak (tr) (baby)
• Ukrainian: гарню́ня f (harnjúnja)

Etymology 2

A brand name of a particular cultivar of orange.

Noun

cutie (plural cuties)

1. A clementine: a small, waxy-peeled orange hybrid cultivar that is easy to peel by hand.
2. (by extension) Any small mandarin orange variety such as a tangerine or a satsuma.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قوطی (kutu, kutı), from Greek κουτί (koutí).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈti.e/

• Audio:

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Noun

cutie f (plural cutii)

1. box (rectangular container)

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cutie	cutia	cutii	cutiile
genitive-dative	cutii	cutiei	cutii	cutiilor
vocative	cutie, cutio		cutiilor