cutie pie

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cutie pie (plural cutie pies)

  1. (chiefly US) A cute person, often female.
    Synonym: cutie patootie
    Her daughter is such a cutie pie!
    • 1916 November 28, Dopey Dan, “Twixt Love and Safety”, in The Washington Herald[1], page 14:
      Not a chance, Cutie-Pie! I'm still in th' hands o' my Oculist!
    • 1933, Dorothy Wayne [pseudonym; Noel Everingham Sainsbury], Dorothy Dixon and the Double Cousin[2]:
      “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.”
  2. (slang) A small hand-held radiation meter.
    • 2014, Mary Alice Statkiewicz Sherer, Paula J. Visconti, E. Russell Ritenour, Workbook for Radiation Protection in Medical Radiography, page 23:
      Most hospitals stock cutie pies to monitor radiation contamination levels during an emergency.

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